| Returning Life: Language, Life Force and History in Kilimanjaro Contributor(s): Myhre, Knut Christian (Author) |
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ISBN: 1785336657 ISBN-13: 9781785336652 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $137.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Customs & Traditions - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Developing & Emerging Countries |
| Dewey: 305.800 |
| LCCN: 2017050584 |
| Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.30 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): 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. |