Returning Life

Language, Life Force and History in Kilimanjaro

Knut Christian Myhre (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-947-5 (ISBN)

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A group of Chagga-speaking men descend the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro to butcher animals and pour milk, beer, and blood on the ground, requesting rain for their continued existence. Returning Life explores how this event engages activities where life force is transferred and transformed to afford and affect beings of different kinds. Historical sources demonstrate how the phenomenon of life force encompasses coffee cash-cropping, Catholic Christianity, and colonial and post-colonial rule, and features in cognate languages from throughout the area. As this vivid ethnography explores how life projects through beings of different kinds, it brings to life concepts and practices that extend through time and space, transcending established analytics.

Knut Christian Myhre is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology – NTNU. He is the editor of Cutting and Connecting: ‘Afrinesian’ Perspectives on Networks, Exchange and Relationality (Berghahn, 2016) and the author of numerous articles. Myhre has held positions at the Nordic Africa Institute and the University of Oslo, and received the Curl Essay Prize for 2017 from the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Prologue

Preface

Acknowledgements

A Note on Language and Orhography

Introduction

Chapter 1. Kaa: Historical Transformations in Production and Habitation

Chapter 2. Ialika: Marrying as a Mode of Extension

Chapter 3. Horu: Channelling Bodies and Shifting Subjects in an Enganging World

Chapter 4. Idamira: Burial as Emplacement and Displacement

Chapter 5. Iabisa: Cursing as a Linguistic and Material Practice

Chapter 6. Ngakuuriya Moo: Returning Life, Affording Rain

Conclusion

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.02.2023
Reihe/Serie	Methodology & History in Anthropology
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80073-947-8 / 1800739478
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-947-5 / 9781800739475
Zustand	Neuware