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The Marsh Arabs
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Author : Wilfred Thesiger
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2008-01-02
The Marsh Arabs written by Wilfred Thesiger and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“Five thousand years of history were here and the pattern was still unchanged.” During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq, Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire and share a way of life that had endured for many centuries. Travelling from village to village by canoe, he won acceptance by dispensing medicines and treating the sick. In this account of his time there, he pays tribute to the hospitality, loyalty, courage and endurance of the people, describes their impressive reed houses, the waterways and lakes teeming with wildlife, the herding of buffalo and hunting of wild boar, moments of tragedy and moments of pure comedy, all in vivid, engaging detail. Untouched by the modern world until recently, these independent people, their way of life and their surroundings suffered widespread destruction under the regime of Saddam Hussein. Wilfred Thesiger's magnificent account of his time spent among them is a moving testament to their now threatened culture and the landscape they inhabit.
Return To The Marshes
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Author : Gavin Young
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2011-10-20
Return To The Marshes written by Gavin Young and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-20 with Travel categories.
It was the legendary traveller Wilfred Thesiger who first introduced Gavin Young to the Marshes of Iraq. Since then Young has been entranced by both the beauty of the Marshes and by the Marsh Arabs who inhabit them, a people whose lifestyle is almost unchanged from that of their predecessors, the Ancient Sumerians. On his return to the Marshes some years later Gavin Young found that the twentieth-century had rudely intruded on this lifestyle and that war was threatening to make the Marsh Arabs existence extinct. Return to the Marshes, first published in 1977, is at once a moving tribute to a unique way of life as well as a love story to a place and its people. 'A superbly written essay which combines warmth of personal tone, a good deal of easy historical scholarship and a talent for vivid description rarely found outside good fiction.' Jonathan Raban, Sunday Times
The Marsh Arabs
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Author : Wilfred Thesiger
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2008-01-02
The Marsh Arabs written by Wilfred Thesiger and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“Five thousand years of history were here and the pattern was still unchanged.” During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq, Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire and share a way of life that had endured for many centuries. Travelling from village to village by canoe, he won acceptance by dispensing medicines and treating the sick. In this account of his time there, he pays tribute to the hospitality, loyalty, courage and endurance of the people, describes their impressive reed houses, the waterways and lakes teeming with wildlife, the herding of buffalo and hunting of wild boar, moments of tragedy and moments of pure comedy, all in vivid, engaging detail. Untouched by the modern world until recently, these independent people, their way of life and their surroundings suffered widespread destruction under the regime of Saddam Hussein. Wilfred Thesiger's magnificent account of his time spent among them is a moving testament to their now threatened culture and the landscape they inhabit.
The Iraqi Marshlands And The Marsh Arabs
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Author : Sam Kubba
language : en
Publisher: Trans Pacific Press
Release Date : 2011
The Iraqi Marshlands And The Marsh Arabs written by Sam Kubba and has been published by Trans Pacific Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Social Science categories.
This text is for those wishing to develop an understanding of a cultural legacy and lifestyle that survives today only as a fragmented cultural inheritance. The book illustrates how the economy and lives of the Ma'dan (Marsh Arabs) that spans over 5000 years remained similar to the ancient practices of their Sumerian forebears.
Iraq S Marsh Arabs In The Garden Of Eden
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Author : Edward L. Ochsenschlager
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2014-04-03
Iraq S Marsh Arabs In The Garden Of Eden written by Edward L. Ochsenschlager and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-03 with Social Science categories.
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 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. Al-Hiba contains the remains of Sumerian people who lived in the marshes more than 5,000 years ago in a similar ecological setting, using similar material resources. The archaeological evidence provides insights into everyday life in antiquity. Ochsenschlager enhances the comparisons of past and present by extensive illustrations from his fieldwork and also from the University Museum's rare archival photographs taken in the late nineteenth century by John Henry Haynes. This was long before Saddam Hussein drove one of the tribes from the marshes, forced the Bedouin to live elsewhere, and irrevocably changed the lives of those who tried to stay.
The Tribes Of The Marsh Arabs Of Iraq
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Author : Fulanain,
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-03-07
The Tribes Of The Marsh Arabs Of Iraq written by Fulanain, and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-07 with Social Science categories.
The Arab tribes of Iraq differ widely in custom but remain in all essentials of thought and conduct a distinctive and unique group. Their land embraces wide deserts, fertile fields and boundless swamps; its unique features shape the lives of its people. Taking the figure of Haji Rikkan as a central focus, the writer-traveller attempts to create a picture of Arab tribal life as a whole.
The Marsh Arabs
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Author : Wilfred Thesiger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
The Marsh Arabs written by Wilfred Thesiger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Euphrates River Valley categories.
A Glimpse Of The Marshes And The Marsh Arabs
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Author : Jehan S. Rajab
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-09-01
A Glimpse Of The Marshes And The Marsh Arabs written by Jehan S. Rajab and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-01 with Photography categories.
A Glimpse Of The Marshes And The Marsh Arabs
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Author : Jehan S. Rajab
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
A Glimpse Of The Marshes And The Marsh Arabs written by Jehan S. Rajab and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Euphrates River categories.
The Iraqi Marshlands
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Author : Emma Nicholson
language : en
Publisher: Politico's Publishing
Release Date : 2003
The Iraqi Marshlands written by Emma Nicholson and has been published by Politico's Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Marsh Arabs categories.
Contains 17 contributions addressing the many human and environmental dimensions of the assault on the Iraqi marshlands by the government of Saddam Hussein during the 1980s and 1990s. This volume is based on the second and final report on the Marshlands and Marsh Dwellers of Southern Mesopotamia.