Eduard Glaser – Forschungen im Yemen. Eine quellenkritische Untersuchung in ethnologischer Sicht

Dostal, Walter. Eduard Glaser – Forschungen im Yemen. Eine quellenkritische Untersuchung in ethnologischer Sicht. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1990. First edition. Quarto. 246pp., 41 plates. Original pictorial brown wrappers with black lettering on cover and spine. A critical inquiry of sources in ethnological view. Publications of the Arabic Committee Nr. 4. Based on the information gathered during the journeys to Arhab (1884) and Mãrib (18888) as described in the diaries of Eduard Glaser. Account of political conditions as well as the treatment of foreigners in tribal law and detail descriptions of the course of his two travels. Treatment of “sexual hospitality” in southern Arabia in the appendix. Illustrated with more than 40 vivid b/w reproductions of photographs. Text in German. Wrappers with light wear along edges. Wrappers in overall good+, interior in very good condition. vg. Softcover. (35489) $45