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

Author: Ochsenschlager, Edward L.
Published: Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2004.
Physical Description: x, 285 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm

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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.

Subject(s)

Ethnology—Tigris-Euphrates Delta (Iraq and Iran)
Material culture—Tigris-Euphrates Delta (Iraq and Iran)
Marshes—Iraq
Baṣrah (Iraq : Province)—Antiquities

ISBN

193170774X (alk. paper)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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