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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.
Questions regarding the origins, mobility, and effects of
analytical concepts continue to emerge as anthropology endeavors to
describe similarities and differences in social life around the
world. Cutting and Connecting rethinks this comparative enterprise
by calling in a conceptual debt that theoretical innovations from
Melanesian anthropology owe to network analysis originally
developed in African contexts. On this basis, the contributors
adopt and employ concepts from recent studies of Melanesia to
analyze contemporary life on the African continent and to explore
how this exchange influences the borrowed anthropological
perspectives. By focusing on ways in which networks are cut and
connections are made, these empirical investigations show how
particular relationships are created in today's Africa. In
addition, the volume aims for an approach that recasts
relationships between theory and place and concepts and
ethnography, in a manner that destabilizes the distinction between
fieldwork and writing.
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.
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