TY - BOOK AU - King,Diane E. TI - Kurdistan on the global stage: kinship, land, and community in Iraq SN - 9781461954019 AV - DS70 .K873 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - New Brunswick, New Jersey PB - Rutgers University Press KW - Kurds KW - Iraq KW - Politics and government KW - Ethnic identity KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Note on the Transliteration, Pronunciation, and Proper Nouns; 1. Kurdistan Glocal; 2. Fieldwork in a Danger Zone; 3. A Man on the Land: Lineages, Identity, and Place; 4. Gendered Challenges: Women Navigating Patriliny; 5. Politicking; 6. Refuge Seeking, Patriliny, and the Global; 7. Kurdistan in the World; Notes; Glossary and Acronyms; References; Index; 2; b N2 -

Diane E. King has written about everyday life in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, which covers much of the area long known as Iraqi Kurdistan. One of the few scholars who has done research during the Saddam Hussein regime, King offers a sensitive interpretation of the contradiction resulting from the intersection of tradition with modernity, exploring the ways that residents connect socially through patron-client relationships and as people belonging to gendered categories UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=669342&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -