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Language, Life Force and History in Kilimanjaro
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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.

Author Biography:

Knut Christian Myhre is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology – NTNU. 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 Nordic Africa Institute and the University of Oslo, and received the Curl Essay Prize for 2017 from the Royal Anthropological Institute.
Release date NZ
December 29th, 2017
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Pages
336
ISBN-13
9781785336652
Product ID
26912701

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