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IRAQ'S MARSH ARABS

What can the present tell us about the past? From 1968 to 1990, Edward Ochsenschlager conducted ethno-archaeological 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... more

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MAGNIFICENT OBJECTS

Thousands of years of antiquity. Enigmatic cultures past and present. Magnificent objects crafted by people long forgotten. Traditions that have disappeared into the all-encompassing global society of the 21st century. Since the late 19th century hundreds of people, on behalf of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, have searched for what it means to be human cultures. The Museum's extensive collections provide vital clues in this quest...more

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ADVENTURES IN PHOTOGRAPHY

The Museum has sponsored research in every corner of the globe, resulting in more than a million material pieces that reveal the incredibly diverse accomplishments of people the world over. It has amassed a wealth of photographs, as well as images of modern peoples in every inhabited continent of our planet. A selection of the most riveting photographs from the Museum’s worldwide explorations, on every continent, with an interpretive essay by the Museum’s Archivist, Alex Pezzati.
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SINOP LANDSCAPES:
Exploring Connection to the Black Sea Hinterland
Owen P. Doonan

The Black Sea coast is different from the rest of Turkey. For more than 5,000 years Sinop, the central point on the coast, has seemed more remote from the rest of the Anatolian land mass than from Greece, Italy Africa, the Crimea, Istanbul, and Rome. How was Sinop connected to them?
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TOUCHING THE MEKONG

Touching the Mekong is a visual exploration of contemporary life in those Southeast Asian countries which border, or contain within their borders, segments of the region’s largest river, the Mekong.

Freelance photographer Andrea Baldeck, who traveled throughout the area in 2001–2002, presents 150 compelling images that encompass portraiture, landscapes, and still lifes, along with a brief essay that explores some of the factors that led her to explore this terrain with her camera. More...

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