THE DAUGHTER OF ABD SALAM : The Story of a Peasant Woman of Palestine

Fitch, Florence Mary; [& Granqvist, Hilda ?]

Published by Bruce Humphries, 1934

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The first edition of this book is copyrighted 1930: one is unable to determine how this "New Edition", which contains the same number of pages, differs from that one. "Seven months spent in Palestine [1926-1927] gave frequent opportunity to visit the Arab villages. There I saw the life of the people as it is today and as it has been in large measure for three or more thousand years. The story of Sitte [the daughter of the book's title] embodies my findings. Every incident is one which I saw or heard or which was reported to me first hand. Every character has a prototype among my Arab acquaintances. I acknowledge my indebtedness to the sturdy, simple fellahin who welcomed me to their homes and and their festivities; also to Louisa Baldensperger, who has spent a long life among them, and to Hilma Granqvist, the Finnish scholar, whose study of peasant villages is yielding significant results. These women helped me to understand what I saw and gave me confidence in presenting this sketch as true to the life it seeks to portray." [Foreword] "These women" -- Granqvist especially -- did a bit more than that: they provided the village (unnamed in the book), which was Artas; they may have provided the narrator -- the woman called Sitte in the color Frontispiece here is a ringer of a woman who appears in Granqvist's photographs --; they provided a story line, which mirrors the research on such customs as infanticide done by Granqvist in Atras (1925-1931), a byproduct of her ethnohnographic studies of Palestinian Arab women; and likely provided some, if not most, of the photographs, since the best of them are in Granqvist's textured style. 75 pages, with aforementioned Frontispiece, and 27 black and white plates. Boards are rubbed; text is strong and mostly clean: there is coloring to mid-margins, a paper blemish on page 63, and about 14 plates have a triangular binder's glue shadow that measures, at worst, 1 1/8" vertically up from the inner lower edge, by 1 5/8" diagonally down to the lower edge. Seller Inventory # 204147

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE DAUGHTER OF ABD SALAM : The Story of a ...
Publisher: Bruce Humphries
Publication Date: 1934
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: [Hilda Granqvist ?]
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket