Wetland Cultures

Ancient, Traditional, Contemporary
2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-57364-4
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 473 g

Reihe: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment

Traditional cultures have a long and vital association with wetlands as sacred places imbued with spiritual and ceremonial significance that provide physical sustenance and sources of materials in paludiculture. Ancient Greek and Roman cultures denigrated wetlands as places of disease, terror, horror, the hellish and the monstrous. Judeo-Christian theology was syncretized with them into the mainstream denigration of wetlands. Wetlands are a marginalized community, an oppressed minority and non-binary, queer bodies of water. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Giblett, Rod

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction to Wetland Cultures, Past and Present.- 2. Wetland Aboriginals in Queensland.- 3. Marsh Arabs in Iraq.- 4. Malarial Greeks and their Dispersion.- 5. Paludal Romans and their Dispersion.- 6. Fen Britons.- 7. Bog Irish.- 8. Marais Acadians in Canada.- 9. A Marsh Writer in Canada and the Future of Wetland Cultures.

Über Autor(innen)

Rod Giblettis Honorary Associate Professor of Environmental Humanities in the Writing and Literature Program at Deakin University, Australia. He has a rich publication history and research focuses on wetland cultural studies, psychoanalytic ecology, conservation counter-theology and Thoreau and Benjamin studies.