Returning Life (eBook)

Language, Life Force and History in Kilimanjaro

Knut Christian Myhre (Autor)

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2017
336 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-666-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Knut Christian Myhre is a senior researcher in the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo. 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 Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), the Nordic Africa Institute, and the University of Oslo.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.12.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Methodology & History in Anthropology
• Reihe/Serie: Methodology & History in Anthropology
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Anthropology • Anthropology (General), Cultural Studies (General), Sociology • Attachment • Bodies • bodily substances • Bridewealth • burial • Christianity • Comparison • Concepts • Contraction • cursing • detachment • Determination • Dispersal • Displacement • Divination • Dwelling • Emplacement • ethnography • extension • form of life • General Anthropology • Habitation • Housing • Inheritance • Land • language-games • Linguistics • Ludwig Wittgenstein • Materials • Naming • Philosophy • Power • Production • Rain-Making • Relation • removal • Reproduction • Securing Life • Sex • Speech • subjects • Topography
• ISBN-10: 1-78533-666-5 / 1785336665
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78533-666-9 / 9781785336669