Iraq's Marsh Arabs in the Garden of Eden /

Iraq's Marsh Arabs in the Garden of Eden / / Edward L. Ochsenschlager.

What can the present tell us about the past? From 1968 to 1990, Edward Ochsenschlager conducted ethnoarchaeological fieldwork near a mound called al-Hiba, in the marshes of southern Iraq. In examining the material culture of three tribes-their use of mud, reed, wood, and bitumen, and their husbandry...

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Ochsenschlager, Edward L.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014]
©2005
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 182 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • 1. IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN
  • 2. THE PEOPLE OF AL-HIBA
  • 3. WAYS AND MEANS
  • 4. MUD HOUSEHOLD UTENSILS AND STORAGE CONTAINERS
  • 5. MUD MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS,TOYS, JEWELRY, AND AMMUNITION
  • 6. MUD ARCHITECTURE AND ANCILLARY STRUCTURES
  • 7. BAKED POTTERY
  • 8. MATS, BASKETS, AND OTHER OBJECTS MADE FROM REEDS AND RUSHES
  • 9. REED ARCHITECTURE
  • 10. WOOD, BOATS, AND BITUMEN
  • 11. BOVINE HUSBANDRY
  • 12. SHEEP
  • 13. VILLAGEWEAVERS
  • 14. THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF JOHN HENRY HAYNES
  • 15. DEATH UNDER GLASS
  • INDEX

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