Book
The Kurdish woman's life: field research in a Muslim society, Iraq
Nationalmuseet • (7) • Published In 1961 • Pages: ix, 213 , 99 plates
By: Hansen, Henny Harald.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an excellent monograph Kurdish women. During her four month stay in Kurdish homes, Hansen, with the aid of an interpreter, collected data on almost every phase of women's lives. Hansen argues that Kurdish women do not constitute a homogeneous group and she delineates four subgroups; village aristocrat, peasant women, educated urban women, and uneducated urban women. In her study, Hansen includes the analysis of the latent and negative functions of Kurdish woman's activities and of psychological factors, thus challenging the previous writers' ethnocentric and male view on the Kurdish woman's status. This monograph contains comprehensive data on the material surroundings of the Kurdish woman such as dwellings, clothing, food, domestic implements, and on daily routines, life cycle, child care, and their religious activities.
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Kurds
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Hesung C. Koh ; 1962
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1957
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Iraq
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Henny Harald Hansen
- A list of Kurdish terms employed, and the A list of ethnographical specimens are located on pp. 205-208. For the explanation of footnotes, see pp. 187-197.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 198)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kurds