Erika Friedl is The E.E. Meader Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Western Michigan University, USA. Between 1965 and 2015 she won numerous grants to carry out fieldwork in Boir Ahmad, West Iran. Friedl is the author of several books on the people of Boir Ahmad, including: Women of Deh Koh (1991), Children of Deh Koh (1997), Warm Hearts and Sharp Tongues (2015), as well as Folktales and Storytellers of Iran (I.B.Tauris, 2014) and Folksongs from the Mountains of Iran (I.B.Tauris, 2017). In 2020 she was announced as the winner of the Association of Iranian Studies Lifetime Achievement Award.
This book is a treasure. From it, we can learn more deeply what anthropology is, how to go about anthropology, and how to understand people and their culture. --American Ethnologist