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    Yemen Chronicle: An Anthropology of War and Mediation
    Yemen Chronicle: An Anthropology of War and Mediation
    Yemen Chronicle: An Anthropology of War and Mediation
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    Yemen Chronicle: An Anthropology of War and Mediation

    By Steven C. Caton

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    A report like no other from the heart of the Arab Middle East

    In 1979, Steven C. Caton went to a remote area of Yemen to do fieldwork on the famous oral poetry of its tribes. The recent hostage crisis in Iran made life perilous for a young American in the Middle East; worse, he was soon embroiled in a dangerous local conflict. Yemen Chronicle is Caton's touchingly candid acount of the extraordinary events that ensued.

    One day a neighboring sheikh came angrily to the sanctuary village where Caton lived, claiming that a man there had abducted his daughter and another girl. This was cause for war, and even though the culprit was captured and mediation efforts launched, tribal hostilities simmered for months. A man who was helping to resolve the dispute befriended Caton, showing him how the poems recited by the belligerents were connected to larger Arab conflicts and giving him refuge when the sanctuary was attacked. Then, unexpectedly, Caton himself was arrested and jailed for being an American spy.

    It was 2001 before Caton could return toYemen to untangle the story of why he had been imprisoned and what had happened to the missing girls. Placing his contradictory experiences in their full context, Yemen Chronicle is not only an invaluable assessment of classical ethnographic procedures but also a profound meditation on the political, cultural, and sexual components of modern Arab culture.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateOct 3, 2006
    ISBN9781466807730
    Yemen Chronicle: An Anthropology of War and Mediation
    Author

    Steven C. Caton

    Steven C. Caton is Professor of Modern Arab Society in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University and the author of Peaks of Yemen I Summon: Poetry as Cultural Practice in a North Yemeni Tribe (California, 1990).

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