Iraq's Marsh Arabs in the Garden of Eden

1. Verfasser: Ochsenschlager, Edward L.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2004.
Umfang/Format: x, 285 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 24 cm.
Online Zugang: Table of contents
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.