TY  - BOOK
AU  - Myhre,Knut Christian
TI  - Returning life: language, life force, and history in Kilimanjaro 
T2  - Methodology & history in anthropology
SN  - 9781785336669
AV  - DT443 .R488 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Chaga (African people)
KW  - Tanzania
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Rites and ceremonies
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Kilimanjaro Region
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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
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