Elizabeth Fernea is a Euro-American, (upper) middle class woman accompanying her anthropologist husband to a very foreign setting in the mid-1950s. What have you learned so far about some of the differences between the ways people live in Iraq and the way you live? What do you think are some of the differences between Fernea’s ideas and behaviors in the 1950s and ideas and behaviors of today?
What were Fernea's ideas and behaviors in the 1950s?