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

Description

This volume, presented in honour of Paramount Chief Thomas Lenana Mlanga Marealle II, explores the connections between the past and present landscapes of Mount Kilimanjaro and pulls together contributions from a multitude of related disciplines across the humanities and social sciences, including archaeology, cultural geography, development studies, ethnography, ethnobotany, ethnozoology and history, providing a comprehensive view of issues informing research in the locale. The contributions dovetail together in offering nuanced, multi-faceted appreciations of landscape perception and human-environmental relations in the region. It is hoped that the volume will be seen as a useful interdisciplinary resource on the past, culture and environment of the region. The landscapes, cultures, histories and identities in the Mount Kilimanjaro area are complicated and – as the chapters in this volume show – we can only start rigorously researching them when we grasp interdisciplinary approaches and opportunities.