TY - JOUR
KW - African archaeology
KW - African heritage
KW - Buhaya
KW - Bukara Kingdom
KW - Haya people
KW - Heritage performance
KW - indigenous knowledge
KW - Kihanja Kingdom
KW - Collaboration
KW - community-based heritage
KW - Participatory research
AU - P.R. Schmidt
AB - Ongoing collaborative heritage research in northwestern Tanzania engages partners from diverse backgrounds, from craftsmen and common folk to a sitting king and his royal clan. Such diversity has revealed intangible heritage in two adjacent kingdoms. In Kihanja Kingdom, the physical structures of Kanazi Palace appear to dominate the heritage landscape, yet, ethnographic and archaeological collaborations revealed that Kihanja kings engaged in heritage performances that preserved ritual knowledge the Christian church erased. Written records further misrepresented these subaltern practices, and were at odds with heritage values enshrined in practice and the archaeological record. In Bukara Kingdom, the ravages of HIV/AIDS led to the loss of oral traditions, thus obscuring a significant massacre by German troops over a century ago. By revisiting oral accounts recorded 48 years ago, we (with local participants) were able to correct the written record and justify their efforts to preserve and interpret human remains at Mazinga cave.
BT - Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage
DO - 10.1080/20518196.2017.1308300
LA - English
M1 - 2
N1 - Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
N2 - Ongoing collaborative heritage research in northwestern Tanzania engages partners from diverse backgrounds, from craftsmen and common folk to a sitting king and his royal clan. Such diversity has revealed intangible heritage in two adjacent kingdoms. In Kihanja Kingdom, the physical structures of Kanazi Palace appear to dominate the heritage landscape, yet, ethnographic and archaeological collaborations revealed that Kihanja kings engaged in heritage performances that preserved ritual knowledge the Christian church erased. Written records further misrepresented these subaltern practices, and were at odds with heritage values enshrined in practice and the archaeological record. In Bukara Kingdom, the ravages of HIV/AIDS led to the loss of oral traditions, thus obscuring a significant massacre by German troops over a century ago. By revisiting oral accounts recorded 48 years ago, we (with local participants) were able to correct the written record and justify their efforts to preserve and interpret human remains at Mazinga cave.
PY - 2017
SP - 85
EP - 100
T2 - Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage
TI - Contests between heritage and history in Tanganyika/Tanzania: Insights arising from community-based heritage research
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85035092765&doi=10.1080%2f20518196.2017.1308300&partnerID=40&md5=14ce40dcc5b6634d31f8a8eb00ba750e
VL - 4
SN - 20518196 (ISSN)
ER -