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Wetland Cultures: Ancient, Traditional, Contemporary

By Rod Giblett

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2024
ISBN
303157365X, 9783031573651
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5710102 bytes)
Series
Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
Pages
252\266
Time added
2024-06-22 12:22:37

Description

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.

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