Durrant, Marie Bradshaw (2004) Communities, Place, and Conservation on Mount Kilimanjaro. PhD thesis, Brigham Young University.
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Abstract
The Chagga people have lived and worked on Mount Kilimanjaro for more than 250 years. Through traditions and social practices within their communities and families, strong bonds are established between the Chagga and their home on the mountain. Kilimanjaro National Park and Forest Reserve (KINAPA) was established in the 1970s to protect and conserve the mountain, based on a long history of colonialism and western ideals. As KINAPA has attempted to preserve the flora and fauna on the uppermost portion of Mount Kilimanjaro, they have alienated local residents from the land through a conservation approach that relies on “fences and fines.” By analyzing the interaction between the organization of Kilimanjaro National Park (KINAPA) and the Chagga people who live near its boundaries, I emphasize the social side of a conservation scenario by focusing on the cultural roots of the Chagga people’s sense of place and its influence on their interaction with the mountain. I take as a premise that place and culture are closely connected, and that both, in conjunction with an encroaching western influence in environmental approaches, influence environmental conservation in important ways at the local level on Kilimanjaro. By better understanding the motivations and priorities of the people who surround the lands they hope to protect, KINAPA could tap into some of the social resources it needs to sustain Mount Kilimanjaro.
| Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Environment, Location, and Culture, Mount Kilimanjaro, communities, place, and conservation on mount Kilimanjaro marie bradshaw durrant people, place, and conservation, community attachment and community conservation, research methods, attachment to place through tradition, family and dependence on the land, the chagga and formal conservation, relation of social values and conservation of place, social resources and environmental consevation, |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) D History General and Old World > DT Africa |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | JHI Africa |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Apr 2014 13:47 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Mar 2018 14:26 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/69 |
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