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A Comment on Some Kuwaiti and Egyptian Arabic Anthropological Writings on Kuwait (Review Article)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 January 2009
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Author's note: I would like to thank Dr. John Beattie, and the late Mr. Thomas Hodgkin for reading an earlier version of this paper in the summer of 1979. The paper was also read at the Dept. of History, Simon Fraser University, B.C., Canada in the autumn of 1979. I thank Dr. J. Spagnolo for his valuable comments. I am also indebted to Dr. D. Hopwood for information on Ibn-Miskawayh, and for reading my notes. The books reviewed here were chosen because they were given or recommended to me by colleagues with whom I worked at Kuwait University, Dept. of Sociology and Social Work (September 1977–February 1978), or were loaned to me by my Kuwaiti students, in particular, Nadia S⊂ad al-Kharji.Google Scholar
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