出版社：Centre Français d’Archéologie et de Sciences Sociales de Sanaa
摘要：As a social scientist carrying out field work in the Arabian Peninsula,I am used to navigating between periods of seclusion,and others of intense social contact with colleagues,informants or interviewees. By all standards,working on my own in my Omani air conditioned home office for the last month and a half has not been a traumatizing experience. Evidently,colleagues from Sultan Qaboos University where I am an invited researcher are surely missed. Nevertheless,should confinement last much longer,I will be able to bear with it. It is in a way reminiscent of nostalgic times when I was wrapping up my doctoral thesis or a monograph,and when I made myself believe deadlines only seemed to exist to be postponed.
