Culture, History and Identity: Landscapes of Inhabitation in the Mount Kilimanjaro Area, Tanzania Book

Contents: Introduction: Landscapes of Inhabitation on Mount Kilimanjaro (Timothy Clack); 1) A Global Adventure and Conservation Icon (Jeffrey Durrant); 2) Past in the Present: Tradition, Land and Customary Law on Kilimanjaro 1880-1980 (Sally Falk Moore); 3) People of the Banana Garden: Placing the Dead at the Ultimate Home in Kilimanjaro (Paivi Hasu); 4) Social and Cultural Dimensions of Irrigation Management in Kilimanjaro (Mattias Tagseth); 5) The History of Pre-colonial and Early Colonial Agriculture on Mount Kilimanjaro: A Review (Daryl Stump and Mattias Tagseth); 6) Becoming Chagga: Population and Politics around Kilimanjaro before 1886 (Festo Mkenda); 7) Politics, Cattle and Ivory: Regional Interaction and Changing Land-use Prior to Colonialism (Thomas Hakansson); 8) Continuity and Change in the Historical Landscape of Mount Kilimanjaro: The Rau Forest and Ashira Parish (Robert Munson); 9) Local Memories of Famines (Ludgar Wimmelbucker); 10) Infusing the Sacred: Syncretistic Landscapes, Ritual Performance and Religious Experience in Chaggaland (Timothy Clack); 11) The Impact of Population Pressure on Land Management in Kilimanjaro (Paul Maro); 12) Coffee and Dairying in Kilimanjaro: Historical Development, Income Diversification and Change in the Livelihood of the Chagga (Ntengua Mdoe); 13) Cultural responses to AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (Per Bergsjo); 14) Environment and Worldview: The Chagga Homegardens (Andreas Hemp, Claudia Hemp and J. Christoph Winter).