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| Title: | Culture, history and identity: landscapes of inhabitation in the Mount Kilimanjaro area, Tanzania: essays in honour of Paramount Chief Thomas Lenana Mlanga Marealle II (1915-2007) |
| Editor: | Clack, Timothy |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Issue: | 1966 |
| Pages: | 303 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | BAR, International series (ISSN 0143-3067) |
| City of publisher: | Oxford |
| Publisher: | Archaeopress |
| ISBN: | 9781407304496 |
| Geographic term: | Tanzania |
| Subjects: | environment Kilimanjaro agriculture land use Chaga history memorial volumes (form) |
| About person: | Thomas Lenana Mlanga Marealle (1915-2007) |
| Abstract: | The essays in this volume, written in honour of the late Chagga Chief Thomas Marealle II (1915-2007), are taken as a celebration and recognition of his life, the people and the environment of Mount Kilimanjaro (Tanzania). Principally, the volume is about the connections between the past and present landscapes of Mount Kilimanjaro. Contents: Introduction: landscapes of inhabitation on Mount Kilimanjaro (Timothy Clack); A global adventure and conservation icon (Jeffrey Durrant); Past in the present: tradition, land and 'customary' law on Kilimanjaro 1880-1980 (Sally Falk Moore); People of the banana garden: placing the dead at the ultimate home in Kilimanjaro (Päivi Hasu); Social and cultural dimensions of irrigation management in Kilimanjaro (Mattias Tagseth); The history of pre-colonial and early colonial agriculture on Mount Kilimanjaro: a review (Daryl Stump and Mattias Tagseth); Becoming Chagga: population and politics around Kilimanjaro before 1886 (Fausto Mkenda); Politics, cattle and ivory: regional interaction and changing land-use prior to colonialism (Thomas Håkansson); Continuity and change in the historical landscape of Mount Kilimanjaro: the Rau forest and Ashira parish (Robert Munson); Local memories of famines (Ludgar Wimmelbücker); Infusing the sacred: syncretistic landscapes, ritual performance and religious experience in Chaggaland (Timothy Clack); The impact of population pressure on land management in Kilimanjaro (Paul Maro); Coffee and dairying in Kilimanjaro: historical development, income diversification and change in the livelihoods of the Chagga (Ntengua Mdoe); Cultural responses to AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases (Per Bergsjø); Environment and worldview: the Chagga homegardens (Andreas Hemp, Claudia Hemp and J. Christoph Winter). [ASC Leiden abstract] |