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

"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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Main Author: Clack, Timothy A. R. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford Archaeopress 2007
Series:Cambridge monographs in African archaeology 72
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
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.
Item Description:Literaturangaben
Physical Description:XI, 108 S. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
ISBN:9781407301174

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