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. Yemen Chronicle is Caton's candid account 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. Caton went to a remote area of Yemen to do fieldwork on the famous oral poetry of its tribes. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and New York City. Caton, a professor of anthropology at Harvard University and director of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies, is the author of Lawrence of Arabia: A Film's Anthropology. Caton also offers a profound meditation on the political, cultural, and sexual components of modern Arab culture. Yemen Chronicle is his extraordinary report both on events that ensued and on the many theoreticallet alone practicaldifficulties of doing ethnography in such circumstances. 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 and tribal hostilities simmered for months.
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