Iraq's Marsh Arabs in the Garden of Eden /

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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 husbandr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ochsenschlager, Edward L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, [2004]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Material culture.
Marshes.
Marsh Arabs.
Ethnology.
Antiquities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Arabes des marais.
Marais > Irak.
Culture materielle > Tigre-Euphrate, Delta du (Irak et Iran)
Ethnologie > Tigre-Euphrate, Delta du (Irak et Iran)
Marshes > Iraq.
Material culture > Tigris-Euphrates Delta (Iraq and Iran)
Ethnology > Tigris-Euphrates Delta (Iraq and Iran)
Middle East > Tigris-Euphrates Delta.
Iraq > Baṣrah (Province)
Iraq.
Baṣrah (Iraq : Province) > Antiquities.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • In the Garden of Eden
  • The people of Al-Hiba
  • Ways and means
  • Mud household utensils and storage containers
  • Mud musical instruments, toys, jewelry, and ammunition
  • Mud architecture and ancillary structures
  • Baked pottery
  • Mats, baskets, and other objects made of reeds and rushes
  • Reed architecture
  • Wood, boats, and bitumen
  • Bovine husbandry
  • Sheep
  • Village weavers
  • The photographs of John Henry Haynes
  • Death under glass.

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