Ochsenschlager, Edward L.,

Iraq's Marsh Arabs in the Garden of Eden / Edward L. Ochsenschlager. - 1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations (some color), map

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9781934536759 (e-book)


Ethnology--Tigris-Euphrates Delta (Iraq and Iran)
Material culture--Tigris-Euphrates Delta (Iraq and Iran)
Marshes--Iraq.
Marsh Arabs.


Baṣrah (Iraq : Province)--Antiquities.


Electronic books.

DS70.8.A1 / O29 2004eb

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