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Iraq's Marsh Arabs in the Garden of Eden

Title: Iraq's Marsh Arabs in the Garden of Eden / Edward L. Ochsenschlager.
Author: Ochsenschlager, Edward L.
Publication: Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2004.

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Description

x, 285 pages : illustrations (some color), map; 24 cm

Summary

"From 1968 to 1990, Edward Ochsenschlager conducted ethno-archaeological 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 of cattle, water buffalo, and sheep - he chronicles what is now a lost way of life. He helps us understand ancient manufacturing processes, an artifact's significance and the skill of those who create and use it, and the substantial moral authority wielded by village craftspeople. He reveals the complexities involved in the process of change, both natural and enforced."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN

193170774X
9781931707749

LCCN

2004019710
9781931707749

OCLC

ocm56334119
56334119
SCSB-1416487

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Princeton University Library