Knut Christian Myhre

Returning Life (eBook, ePUB)

Language, Life Force and History in Kilimanjaro

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785336669
• Artikelnr.: 50498426

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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