ENVS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Marsh Arabs
27 Aug 2015
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Hunting is based upon a series of rituals. Master of the hunt lives in a cave nearby. Sacred places are places for the endangered animals to flee to, ecological conservation through spirituality. Rituals require people to dress themselves up as birds, imitate birds, trying to connect with songs of their ancestors. Gobekli tepe, created well before agriculture, believed h/gs came there for worship. Fertility rites: to keep soil growing things. Death, burial and rebirth connected to seasonality: seed, growth, die back. Saddam hussain tried to destroy the marshes with dams.
