Returning life : language, life force, and history in Kilimanjaro / Knut Christian Myhre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Myhre, Knut Christian, 1971- author.

Series:

Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 32.

Methodology and history in anthropology ; volume 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chaga (African people)--Tanzania--Social life and customs.

Chaga (African people).

Chaga (African people)--Tanzania--Rites and ceremonies.

Ethnology--Tanzania--Kilimanjaro Region.

Ethnology.

Rites and ceremonies.

Manners and customs.

Tanzania--Kilimanjaro Region.

Tanzania.

Physical Description:

xvi, 319 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Myhre, Knut Christian, 1971- author. Returning life

ISBN:

9781785336652

1785336657

OCLC:

1008762991