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. 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. Then, unexpectedly, Caton himself was arrested and jailed for being an American spy. 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.

This was cause for war, and even though the culprit was captured and mediation efforts launched, tribal hostilities simmered for months. When somebody should go to the books stores, search launch by shop, shelf by shelf, it is in point of fact problematic. Caton went to a remote area of Yemen to do fieldwork on × Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date.

Caton went to a remote area of Yemen to do fieldwork on the famous oral poetry of its tribes. 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. A report like no other from the heart of the Arab Middle EastIn 1979, Steven C. Caton, Book description A report like no other from the heart of the Arab Middle East In 1979, Steven C. Yemen Chronicle is Caton's touchingly candid acount of the extraordinary events that ensued. 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.

Overview: A report like no other from the heart of the Arab Middle East. Yemen Chronicle: An Anthropology of War and Mediation by Steven C.

Yemen Chronicle by Steven C. Caton