Returning Life

Language, Life Force and History in Kilimanjaro
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-665-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 32, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 641 g

Reihe: Methodology & History in Anthropology

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Myhre, Knut Christian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Myhre, Knut Christian
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.