Memory and the mountain
Subtitle: environmental relations of the Wachagga of Kilimanjaro and implications for landscape archaeology
By: Timothy A.R. Clack.
Series: BAR international series -- 1679; Cambridge monographs in African archaeology -- 72
Publisher: Archaeopress; Available from Hadrian Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9781407301174
Subjects: Chaga (African people) -- Tanzania -- Kilimanjaro Region -- Social life and customs.; Memory -- Social aspects -- Tanzania -- Kilimanjaro Region.; Indigenous peoples -- Ecology -- Tanzania -- Kilimanjaro Region.; Ethnoarchaeology -- Tanzania -- Kilimanjaro Region.; Landscape archaeology -- Tanzania -- Kilimanjaro Region.; Kilimanjaro Region (Tanzania) -- Environmental conditions.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-108).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Memoryscapes: collapsing memory into language; title: Being-somewhere: mythic memoryscapes of the Wachagga; title: Choreographies of religious experience; title: Physicality of Kibo; title: Mountain bounty: the landscape as provider; title: Respecting the past: elders and ancestors; title: Inscribing the land: language, place and ownership; title: Specific features of some memoryscapes in Uchagga; title: Concluding remarks: memoryscapes and archaeology.