| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 319 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Methodology and history in anthropology ; volume 32
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Methodology and history in anthropology ; v. 32.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Chaga (African people) -- Tanzania -- Social life and customs.
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Chaga (African people) |
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Tanzania. |
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Manners and customs. |
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Chaga (African people) -- Tanzania -- Rites and ceremonies.
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Rites and ceremonies. |
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Ethnology -- Tanzania -- Kilimanjaro Region.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. |
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Ethnology. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. |
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Tanzania -- Kilimanjaro Region. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Customs & Traditions. |
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Chaga (African people) -- Social life and customs. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Myhre, Knut Christian, 1971- Returning life. New York : Berghahn Books, 2017 9781785336652 (DLC) 2017050584 |
| ISBN |
9781785336669 (electronic book) |
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1785336665 (electronic book) |
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9781785336652 |
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