Returning Life : : Language, Life Force and History in Kilimanjaro / / Knut Christian Myhre.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Myhre, Knut Christian,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology ; 32
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; List of Illustrations --; Preface --; Acknowledgements --; A Note on Language and Orthography --; 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 Engaging 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785336669; 9783110998214
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785336669?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Knut Christian Myhre.

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.