Wetland Cultures: Ancient, Traditional, Contemporary (Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment)

Wetland Cultures: Ancient, Traditional, Contemporary (Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment)
by: Rod Giblett (Author)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Edition: 2024th
Publication Date: 2024/6/22
Language: English
Print Length: 276 pages
ISBN-10: 3031573641
ISBN-13: 9783031573644
Book 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.
About the Author
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. Read more