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Community-Based Approaches in the Construction, Ownership, and Management of Water Infrastructures and the Development of Socio-Political Complexity Among the Chagga, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
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: Received: 22 December 2022 / Approved: 23 December 2022 / Online: 23 December 2022 (09:00:41 CET)
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Silayo, V.M.; Pikirayi, I. Community-Based Approaches in the Construction, Ownership, and Management of Water Infrastructures and the Development of Socio-Political Complexity Among the Chagga, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Preprints2022, 2022120456. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202212.0456.v1
Silayo, V.M.; Pikirayi, I. Community-Based Approaches in the Construction, Ownership, and Management of Water Infrastructures and the Development of Socio-Political Complexity Among the Chagga, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Preprints 2022, 2022120456. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202212.0456.v1
Silayo, V.M.; Pikirayi, I. Community-Based Approaches in the Construction, Ownership, and Management of Water Infrastructures and the Development of Socio-Political Complexity Among the Chagga, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Preprints2022, 2022120456. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202212.0456.v1
APA Style
Silayo, V.M., & Pikirayi, I. (2022). Community-Based Approaches in the Construction, Ownership, and Management of Water Infrastructures and the Development of Socio-Political Complexity Among the Chagga, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202212.0456.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Silayo, V.M. and Innocent Pikirayi. 2022 "Community-Based Approaches in the Construction, Ownership, and Management of Water Infrastructures and the Development of Socio-Political Complexity Among the Chagga, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202212.0456.v1
Abstract
Since the second half of the second millennium AD, water management among the Chagga people of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania has involved community collaboration in the construction, ownership and management of water infrastructure. Chagga settlement on the lower slopes of Kilimanjaro transformed the landscape significantly to reflect an agrarian society characterised by decentralised forms of socio-political and economic organisation. Such organization involved conception, construction, and post-construction management of water distribution systems, constituting high-level socio-political complexity. The study employs ethnography, archaeological surveys and GIS to document water infrastructures on the lower slopes of Kilimanjaro. We conclude that community collaboration was key in management of the water infrastructure and by extension, agriculture, which sustained Chagga and chiefdoms for centuries.
Keywords
Chagga; water infrastructures; water management; sustainable farming; social complexity; community collaboration
Subject
Arts and Humanities, Archaeology
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