Memory and the mountain : environmental relations of the Wachagga of Kilimanjaro and implications for landscape archaeology / Timothy A.R. Clack.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clack, Timothy

Series:

BAR international series ; 1679.

Cambridge monographs in African archaeology ; 72.

BAR international series ; 1679

Cambridge monographs in African archaeology ; 72

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chaga (African people)--Tanzania--Kilimanjaro Region--Social life and customs.

Memory--Social aspects--Tanzania--Kilimanjaro Region.

Ethnoecology--Tanzania--Kilimanjaro Region.

Ethnoarchaeology--Tanzania--Kilimanjaro Region.

Landscape archaeology--Tanzania--Kilimanjaro Region.

Kilimanjaro Region (Tanzania)--Environmental conditions.

Chaga (African people)--Social life and customs.

Ecology.

Ethnoarchaeology.

Ethnoecology.

Landscape archaeology.

Memory--Social aspects.

Tanzania--Kilimanjaro Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 108 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Archaeopress, 2007.

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Summary:

"This book considers the relationships between memory, experience and landscape from insights gained conducting ethnographic research; its primary focus is the Wachagga of Kilimanjaro, East Africa. In so doing this investigation into the memoryscape might be labelled an 'archaeological ethnography' for not only is it an ethnography produced by an archaeologist, it was conducted with archaeological applications in mind. The motivation of this ethnographical research was the theorisation of some issues involved in landscape archaeology. There has been considerable attention given to the religious dimensions of archaeological landscapes. The purpose of this study is to augment such appreciations by theorising the complex environmental relations of a contemporary culture. Such theorisation enables recognition of the wealth of human experience that is archaeologically unknowable."--Publisher's web site

Contents:

Introduction

Memoryscapes: collapsing memory into language

Being-somewhere: mythic memoryscapes of the Wachagga

Choreographies of religious experience

Physicality of Kibo

Mountain bounty: the landscape as provider

Respecting the past: elders and ancestors

Inscribing the land: language, place and ownership

Specific features of some memoryscapes in Uchagga

Concluding remarks: memoryscapes and archaeology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-108).

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Clack, Timothy. Memory and the mountain.

ISBN:

9781407331560

1407331566

OCLC:

608113875

Publisher Number:

S1679 BAR Publishing

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