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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Myhre, Knut Christian, 1971- author.
Imprint:	New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 319 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Methodology and history in anthropology ; volume 32 Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 32.
Subject:	Chaga (African people) -- Tanzania -- Social life and customs. Chaga (African people) -- Tanzania -- Rites and ceremonies. Ethnology -- Tanzania -- Kilimanjaro Region. Chaga (African people) -- Social life and customs. Ethnology. Tanzania. Tanzania -- Kilimanjaro Region.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13584182

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ISBN:	9781785336669 1785336665 9781785336652
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 01, 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.
Other form:	Print version: Myhre, Knut Christian, 1971- Returning life. New York : Berghahn Books, 2017 9781785336652

Table of 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.