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Returning life : language, life force, and history in Kilimanjaro

Title
Returning life : language, life force, and history in Kilimanjaro / Knut Christian Myhre.
Author
Myhre, Knut Christian, 1971-
Publication
  • New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.
  • ©2018

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Description
xvi, 319 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
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.--Publisher's summary.
Series Statement
Methodology and history in anthropology ; volume 32
Uniform Title
Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 32.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Prologue -- Introduction -- Kaa : historical transformations in production and habitation -- Ialika : marrying as a mode of extension -- Horu : channelling bodies and shifting subjects in an engaging world -- Idamira : burial as emplacement and displacement -- Iabisa : cursing as a linguistic and material practice -- Ngakuuriya moo : returning life, affording rain.
Call Number
Sc E 18-738
ISBN
  • 9781785336652
  • 1785336657
  • 9781785336669 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • 2017050584
  • 40027879705
OCLC
1008762991
Author
Myhre, Knut Christian, 1971- author.
Title
Returning life : language, life force, and history in Kilimanjaro / Knut Christian Myhre.
Publisher
New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Methodology and history in anthropology ; volume 32
Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 32.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Note
AUTH: UNIVERSITY OF OSLO.
Other Standard Identifier
40027879705
Research Call Number
Sc E 18-738
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