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Memory and the mountain : environmental relations of the Wachagga of Kilimanjaro and implications for landscape archaeology /

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"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 eth...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clack, Timothy
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Archaeopress, 2007.
Series:Cambridge monographs in African archaeology ; 72.
BAR international series ; 1679.
Subjects:
Chaga (African people) > Tanzania > Kilimanjaro Region.
Memory.
Ethnology > Tanzania > Kilimanjaro Region.
Ecology > Tanzania > Kilimanjaro Region.
Landscape archaeology > Tanzania > Kilimanjaro Region.
Table of 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.