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Returning Life: Language, Life Force and History in Kilimanjaro

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

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Returning Life: Language, Life Force and History in Kilimanjaro 2023, Berghahn Books, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9781800739475

Trade paperback

Returning Life: Language, Life Force and History in Kilimanjaro 2017, Berghahn Books, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9781785336652

Hardcover