The Tribes Of The Marsh Arabs Of Iraq
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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 Political 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: 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
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.
Haji Rikkan
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Author : Fulanain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1927
Haji Rikkan written by Fulanain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1927 with Arabian Peninsula categories.
An account of Arab tribal life in two of the confederation of Iraq: the Albu Mohammad and the Bani Lám.--cf. Pref.
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 Political 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 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.
The Marsh Arabs Of Southern Iraq
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Author : Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
The Marsh Arabs Of Southern Iraq written by Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with categories.
Southern Iraq S Marshes
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Author : Laith A. Jawad
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-05-06
Southern Iraq S Marshes written by Laith A. Jawad and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-06 with Science categories.
The Mesopotamian marshes are important for economic, social, and biodiversity values and have been home to indigenous human communities for millennia. They are regarded as a legendary site. This multi-authored book contains chapters written by world-renowned experts in their field. Both basic and applied information are made available, making the book a must-have for a wide spectrum of users. For example, an understanding of the natural and the social aspects of the marshes, as described here, is an obvious prerequisite for a pest management plan in this area. Scholars interested in wetlands can use this book as a guide to compare different wetlands areas in Asia. The bibliography section contains valuable references to the marsh areas and research in the field. This book serves as an up-to-date comprehensive source of information on different aspects of the southern marshes of Iraq and is aimed at academic scholars, environmentalists, and decision makers.
The Prince Of The Marshes
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Author : Rory Stewart
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2007-02-01
The Prince Of The Marshes written by Rory Stewart and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-02-01 with Political Science categories.
An adventurous diplomat’s “engrossing and often darkly humorous” memoir of working with Iraqis after the fall of Saddam Hussein(Publishers Weekly). In August 2003, at the age of thirty, Rory Stewart took a taxi from Jordan to Baghdad. A Farsi-speaking British diplomat who had recently completed an epic walk from Turkey to Bangladesh, he was soon appointed deputy governor of Amarah and then Nasiriyah, provinces in the remote, impoverished marsh regions of southern Iraq. He spent the next eleven months negotiating hostage releases, holding elections, and splicing together some semblance of an infrastructure for a population of millions teetering on the brink of civil war. The Prince of the Marshes tells the story of Stewart’s year. As a participant he takes us inside the occupation and beyond the Green Zone, introducing us to a colorful cast of Iraqis and revealing the complexity and fragility of a society we struggle to understand. By turns funny and harrowing, moving and incisive, it amounts to a unique portrait of heroism and the tragedy that intervention inevitably courts in the modern age.