Background
Fernea, Robert Alan was born on January 25, 1932 in Vancouver, Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of George Jacob and Alta Lorraine (Carter) Fernea.
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The Arab World: Personal Encounters
(In the ten years since Anchor first published Elizabeth a...)
In the ten years since Anchor first published Elizabeth and Robert Fernea's award-winning The Arab World: Personal Encounters, vast political and economic shifts have taken place: the end of the Iran/Iraq War and the Lebanese civil war; the outbreak of the Gulf War; the historic 1993 peace accords between Israel and the Palestinians, to name just a few. Which is why the Ferneas, leading scholars in Middle Eastern studies, felt a need to return to the same towns and cities they had written about previously-to see how these changes had affected the region and the people who live in it. The authors reveal the human face of the Arab World as they revisit and talk with newsmakers and colleagues, old friends and new. Their forty years of experience in the region help illuminate the human consequences of changes all too often discussed in abstractions and generalizations: the military conflicts, new urbanization, labor migration, religious revival, as well as radical changes in the roles of men, women, and the family. With new chapters on Baghdad, Beirut, Amman, Jerusalem, Marrakech, and Cairo, this new edition of The Arab World will strengthen its reputation as a book "which should be required reading for anyone with a serious interest in the Middle East" (The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs).
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Nubians in Egypt: Peaceful People
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hardcover with dust jacket
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Shaykh And Effendi: Changing Patterns of Authority among the El Shabana of Southern Iraq (Harvard Middle Eastern Studies)
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Book by Fernea, Robert A.
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The Arab World: Personal Encounters
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Nubian Ethnographies
(Written from several perspectives, the majority of this e...)
Written from several perspectives, the majority of this ethnographic collection chronicles the period of Nubian history in the 1960s just before 50,000 Egyptian Nubians were moved from their ancestral home along the Upper Nile due to the building of the Aswan High Dam and the rising waters it backed up. The first half, by Elizabeth Fernea, is an engaging personal account of the experience and process of fieldwork in Nubia and the author's interaction with Nubian society. The focus is on the lives of the Nubian women and children--their place in the wider society, their customs and beliefs, social life, attitudes toward health and child care. The second half, by Robert Fernea, is an ethnography providing a descriptive overview of Nubian society and culture--the result rather than the experience of fieldwork. An up-to-date concluding essay discusses what has happened to the Nubian peoples since their resettlement.
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Robert Alan Fernea
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor of Arts, Reed College, 1954; Master of Arts, University of Chicago, 1955; Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1959.
Career
From assistant professor to associate professor anthropology and Middle Eastern studies, American U., Cairo, 1959-1965;
postdoctoral fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1965-1966;
professor, University Texas, Austin, since 1966;
director Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University Texas, Austin, 1966-1973. Visiting professor University of California at Los Angeles, 1968, U. Washington, 1970, 87. Consultant in field; member exec.com., president, Board of Governors American Research Center in Egypt, Inc., 1981-1987.
Board directors Council American Overseas Research Centers, since 1987, president, 1988-1991.
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Works
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The Arab World: Personal Encounters
(In the ten years since Anchor first published Elizabeth a...)
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Nubian Ethnographies
(Written from several perspectives, the majority of this e...)
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Nubians in Egypt: Peaceful People
(hardcover with dust jacket)
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Shaykh And Effendi: Changing Patterns of Authority among the El Shabana of Southern Iraq (Harvard Middle Eastern Studies)
(Book by Fernea, Robert A.)
- The Arab World: Personal Encounters.
- Nubian Ethnographies by Robert A. Fernea (1990-09-03)
- Shaykh And Effendi: Changing Patterns of Authority among the El Shabana of Southern Iraq (Harvard Middle Eastern Studies) by Robert A. Fernea (1970-01-01)
- The Arab World: Personal Encounters
- Arab World: Personal Encounters
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The Arab World: Personal Encounters
Membership
Fellow American Antrhop. Association (member ethics committee 1986-1989), Middle East Studies Association (founder). Member Society for Cultural Anthropology (board directors 1987-1993, president 1991-1993).
Connections
Married Elizabeth Warnock, June 8, 1956. Children: Laura Ann, David Karim, Laila Catherine.
