K C Myhre
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 18615 |
|---|---|
| NOME | K C Myhre |
| PRENOMES | K C |
| SOBRENOME | Myhre |
| ASSINATURA | MYHRE K C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4479-5621 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 80 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Wendy Rosalind James (1940-2024)
Statens pensjonsfond utland og samfunnskontrakten
I hvilken grad og på hvilke måter kan man si at Statens pensjonsfond utland utgjør en del av en omfattende samfunnskontrakt som går på tvers av generasjoner og ut over Norges grenser? I denne artikkelen viser vi hvordan denne problemstillingen reiser seg, i lys av måten fondet forvaltes og brukes på, og av sentrale begreper som har figurert i utviklingen av det over tid. Vi diskuterer hvordan dette kan avdekke og begrepsfeste former for samarbeid…
Crises all around
The announcement of a record trade surplus for Norway in 2022, and a proposal to create a guarantee fund for investments in renewable energy for Ukraine, Europe and beyond, indicate how the economic and financial situation of the Norwegian state is intimately linked to the predicaments or crises that pertain to the contemporary world. While these phenomena at first glance appear legible in terms of neoliberalism, the article sketches how they ins…
Returning Life
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 Christ…
Chapter 3. Horu
Reframing Welfare
This article explores the historical emergence and current crafting of the expectation documents that Norges Bank Investment Management use to exercise ownership of the corporations in which the world's largest sovereign wealth-fund invests. It shows how these expectations are grounded in characteristics that render sustainability an immanent issue to this fund, and how the documents emerge from collaborative relations that arise from a 'producti…
Covid‐19, dugnad and productive incompleteness
First Book Symposium
This issue inaugurates the First Book Symposium as a feature in the pages of Social Analysis. Instead of including ourselves among the journals that devote a section to book reviews in their regular issues, as we have done for many years, we feel that a more focused approach is better suited to our goal of exploring the potentials of anthropological analysis. Adopting from other journals the format of the book symposium, in which a single book is…
Life and its inflections in Kilimanjaro
This article explores a set of vernacular notions used by the Chagga-speaking people of Tanzania's Kilimanjaro Region to investigate how life-moo-is an effect of transfers and transformations of life-force or horu that occur among humans, houses, livestock, and crops. Exploring how they engage and involve a plethora of places, substances, conduits, beings, and processes that derive from the notion of moo, the article investigates how these proces…
Tales of a stitched anus
This article revisits the fiction explored by Sally Falk Moore more than forty years ago that initiation among the Chagga-speaking people of Tanzania's Kilimanjaro region involved men having their anuses plugged and stitched to ensure complete digestion. It combines historical sources and contemporary fieldwork material on which it deploys an anthropological analytic adopted from Marilyn Strathern's account of the partible person of Melanesia. Th…
Antropologi på film
Denne artikkelen tar utgangspunkt i forfatternes erfaringer med å lage tre filmer av ulik karakter for å reflektere over relasjonen mellom observasjon og analyse i etnografisk film og visuell antropologi. På denne bakgrunnen argumenterer vi for at det er et ubestemt og ustabilt forhold mellom observasjon og analyse i etnografisk film, og at denne relasjonen ikke er ensartet for tekst og film. Refleksjonene berører således spørsmålet om den visuel…
Returning Life
The Power of a Severed Arm
A spate of albino murders that occurred in Tanzania in 2008 serves as a starting point for investigating two events and stories regarding witchcraft among the Chagga-speaking people of Rombo District, Kilimanjaro Region. Departing from the popular and predominant concept of ‘occult economies’, these incidents and accounts are revealed to revolve around the concept of ‘life-force’ (horu), whose transfers and transformations afford human, animal, a…
What the beer shows
Anthropology's recent turn to ontology extends a trajectory of rethinking established analytical domains, such as kinship, politics, and ritual. I reassess ritual by exploring the concept of "showing" among Chagga-speaking people of Rombo District, in Tanzania's Kilimanjaro Region, where substances such as eleusine (finger millet), entrails, milk, and beer have the capacity to reveal the past and point to the future. Through this case, I consider…
The multiple meanings ofmoongo
By means of 'connective analysis', this article explores the multiple meanings ofmoongoamong theChagga-speaking people ofRombo district,Kilimanjaro region, which resemble neglected meanings of the vernacular terms translated as 'lineage' elsewhere. These meanings were eclipsed by an analytical move that privileged 'the political' at the expense of other relations. By suspending the question of politics, it is shown howmoongois central to bridewea…
Cutting and Connecting
This introduction sketches the history of anthropological network analysis and examines its influence and significance with regard to contemporary conceptual and theoretical concerns in the discipline. It is argued that recent Melanesian ethnography is an effect of, and owes a debt to, certain mid-twentieth-century developments in Africanist anthropology. These debts allow for the elicitation of concepts and concerns from Melanesianist anthropolo…
Membering and Dismembering
This article extends Malcolm Ruel's notion of 'non-sacrificial ritual killing' to explore the mode of butchering and the sharing of meat among the Chagga-speaking people of Tanzania. It is argued that these processes are forms of elicitation and decomposition that can be illuminated by analytics developed from Melanesian ethnography. However, it is shown that these processes emerge as such only when the language use surrounding and pertaining to …
Geissler, Paul Wenzel og Ruth Jane Prince
Koda. ANTropologi som grenseflate, adskillelse og relasjon
The pitch of ethnography
This article explores social anthropology's relationship to, and conception of, language, and uses kinship as an example to show how the discipline presumes and entails a digital conception of social relations, which leaves little room for language as a constitutive phenomenon. By drawing on certain philosophies of language, the article deploys the notion of pitch to explore the published ethnography on the Lovedu of South Africa to show how lang…
Moral power
En innledning til Axel Sommerfelts artikkel
Bokomtaler
Om ritualer og sosiale relasjoner – Refleksjoner rundt et kraftfullt bytte
The article describes a bridewealth prestation amongthe Chagga-speaking people of Tanzania. Departingfrom approaches that rely on the notion of reciprocity,the author explores how the prestation pe
Family Resemblances, Practical Interrelations and Material Extensions
Through the 'procreative paradigm', sexuality and its relationships to other social practices have recently regained importance in the study of sub-Saharan Africa. Despite its apparent novelty, I argue that this paradigm invokes an anthropological approach that harks back to the discipline's beginnings. In an attempt at a fresh departure, I use Ludwig Wittgenstein's late philosophy to investigate the meaning of sexual prohibitions among the Chagg…
Divination and experience
This article argues that anthropological approaches to African divination are characterized by a certain epistemology, which creates specific problems with regard to vernacular truth-claims. Using ethnographic material from the Chagga-speaking people of Kilimanjaro, the article traces the multiple overlapping ramifications that interrelate vernacular concepts, physical objects, and local subjectivities. By thus avoiding reductionist arguments, th…
The truth of anthropology
Family Resemblances, Practical Interrelations and Material Extensions
Through the 'procreative paradigm', sexuality and its relationships to other social practices have recently regained importance in the study of sub-Saharan Africa. Despite its apparent novelty, I argue that this paradigm invokes an anthropological approach that harks back to the discipline's beginnings. In an attempt at a fresh departure, I use Ludwig Wittgenstein's late philosophy to investigate the meaning of sexual prohibitions among the Chagg…
Tales of a stitched anus
This article revisits the fiction explored by Sally Falk Moore more than forty years ago that initiation among the Chagga-speaking people of Tanzania's Kilimanjaro region involved men having their anuses plugged and stitched to ensure complete digestion. It combines historical sources and contemporary fieldwork material on which it deploys an anthropological analytic adopted from Marilyn Strathern's account of the partible person of Melanesia. Th…
What the beer shows
Anthropology's recent turn to ontology extends a trajectory of rethinking established analytical domains, such as kinship, politics, and ritual. I reassess ritual by exploring the concept of "showing" among Chagga-speaking people of Rombo District, in Tanzania's Kilimanjaro Region, where substances such as eleusine (finger millet), entrails, milk, and beer have the capacity to reveal the past and point to the future. Through this case, I consider…
The pitch of ethnography
This article explores social anthropology's relationship to, and conception of, language, and uses kinship as an example to show how the discipline presumes and entails a digital conception of social relations, which leaves little room for language as a constitutive phenomenon. By drawing on certain philosophies of language, the article deploys the notion of pitch to explore the published ethnography on the Lovedu of South Africa to show how lang…
Reframing Welfare
This article explores the historical emergence and current crafting of the expectation documents that Norges Bank Investment Management use to exercise ownership of the corporations in which the world's largest sovereign wealth-fund invests. It shows how these expectations are grounded in characteristics that render sustainability an immanent issue to this fund, and how the documents emerge from collaborative relations that arise from a 'producti…
The multiple meanings ofmoongo
By means of 'connective analysis', this article explores the multiple meanings ofmoongoamong theChagga-speaking people ofRombo district,Kilimanjaro region, which resemble neglected meanings of the vernacular terms translated as 'lineage' elsewhere. These meanings were eclipsed by an analytical move that privileged 'the political' at the expense of other relations. By suspending the question of politics, it is shown howmoongois central to bridewea…
The bookseller of Kabul and the anthropologists of Norway
Life and its inflections in Kilimanjaro
This article explores a set of vernacular notions used by the Chagga-speaking people of Tanzania's Kilimanjaro Region to investigate how life-moo-is an effect of transfers and transformations of life-force or horu that occur among humans, houses, livestock, and crops. Exploring how they engage and involve a plethora of places, substances, conduits, beings, and processes that derive from the notion of moo, the article investigates how these proces…
Koda. ANTropologi som grenseflate, adskillelse og relasjon
Om ritualer og sosiale relasjoner – Refleksjoner rundt et kraftfullt bytte
The article describes a bridewealth prestation amongthe Chagga-speaking people of Tanzania. Departingfrom approaches that rely on the notion of reciprocity,the author explores how the prestation pe
Crises all around
The announcement of a record trade surplus for Norway in 2022, and a proposal to create a guarantee fund for investments in renewable energy for Ukraine, Europe and beyond, indicate how the economic and financial situation of the Norwegian state is intimately linked to the predicaments or crises that pertain to the contemporary world. While these phenomena at first glance appear legible in terms of neoliberalism, the article sketches how they ins…
En innledning til Axel Sommerfelts artikkel
Uncertainty in contemporary African lives
Uncertainty in contemporary African lives Get access Knut Christian Myhre Knut Christian Myhre Knut Christian Myhre is a research student at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, and St Antony's College, Oxford. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 102, Issue 409, 1 October 2003, Pages 651–652, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adg066 Published: 01 October 2003
The bookseller of Kabul and the anthropologists of Norway
Divination and experience
This article argues that anthropological approaches to African divination are characterized by a certain epistemology, which creates specific problems with regard to vernacular truth-claims. Using ethnographic material from the Chagga-speaking people of Kilimanjaro, the article traces the multiple overlapping ramifications that interrelate vernacular concepts, physical objects, and local subjectivities. By thus avoiding reductionist arguments, th…
The truth of anthropology
Om ritualer og sosiale relasjoner – Refleksjoner rundt et kraftfullt bytte
The article describes a bridewealth prestation amongthe Chagga-speaking people of Tanzania. Departingfrom approaches that rely on the notion of reciprocity,the author explores how the prestation pe
Family Resemblances, Practical Interrelations and Material Extensions
Through the 'procreative paradigm', sexuality and its relationships to other social practices have recently regained importance in the study of sub-Saharan Africa. Despite its apparent novelty, I argue that this paradigm invokes an anthropological approach that harks back to the discipline's beginnings. In an attempt at a fresh departure, I use Ludwig Wittgenstein's late philosophy to investigate the meaning of sexual prohibitions among the Chagg…
Bokomtaler
En innledning til Axel Sommerfelts artikkel
Koda. ANTropologi som grenseflate, adskillelse og relasjon
The pitch of ethnography
This article explores social anthropology's relationship to, and conception of, language, and uses kinship as an example to show how the discipline presumes and entails a digital conception of social relations, which leaves little room for language as a constitutive phenomenon. By drawing on certain philosophies of language, the article deploys the notion of pitch to explore the published ethnography on the Lovedu of South Africa to show how lang…
Moral power
Cutting and Connecting
This introduction sketches the history of anthropological network analysis and examines its influence and significance with regard to contemporary conceptual and theoretical concerns in the discipline. It is argued that recent Melanesian ethnography is an effect of, and owes a debt to, certain mid-twentieth-century developments in Africanist anthropology. These debts allow for the elicitation of concepts and concerns from Melanesianist anthropolo…
Membering and Dismembering
This article extends Malcolm Ruel's notion of 'non-sacrificial ritual killing' to explore the mode of butchering and the sharing of meat among the Chagga-speaking people of Tanzania. It is argued that these processes are forms of elicitation and decomposition that can be illuminated by analytics developed from Melanesian ethnography. However, it is shown that these processes emerge as such only when the language use surrounding and pertaining to …
Geissler, Paul Wenzel og Ruth Jane Prince
The multiple meanings ofmoongo
By means of 'connective analysis', this article explores the multiple meanings ofmoongoamong theChagga-speaking people ofRombo district,Kilimanjaro region, which resemble neglected meanings of the vernacular terms translated as 'lineage' elsewhere. These meanings were eclipsed by an analytical move that privileged 'the political' at the expense of other relations. By suspending the question of politics, it is shown howmoongois central to bridewea…
What the beer shows
Anthropology's recent turn to ontology extends a trajectory of rethinking established analytical domains, such as kinship, politics, and ritual. I reassess ritual by exploring the concept of "showing" among Chagga-speaking people of Rombo District, in Tanzania's Kilimanjaro Region, where substances such as eleusine (finger millet), entrails, milk, and beer have the capacity to reveal the past and point to the future. Through this case, I consider…
Returning Life
The Power of a Severed Arm
A spate of albino murders that occurred in Tanzania in 2008 serves as a starting point for investigating two events and stories regarding witchcraft among the Chagga-speaking people of Rombo District, Kilimanjaro Region. Departing from the popular and predominant concept of ‘occult economies’, these incidents and accounts are revealed to revolve around the concept of ‘life-force’ (horu), whose transfers and transformations afford human, animal, a…
Antropologi på film
Denne artikkelen tar utgangspunkt i forfatternes erfaringer med å lage tre filmer av ulik karakter for å reflektere over relasjonen mellom observasjon og analyse i etnografisk film og visuell antropologi. På denne bakgrunnen argumenterer vi for at det er et ubestemt og ustabilt forhold mellom observasjon og analyse i etnografisk film, og at denne relasjonen ikke er ensartet for tekst og film. Refleksjonene berører således spørsmålet om den visuel…
First Book Symposium
This issue inaugurates the First Book Symposium as a feature in the pages of Social Analysis. Instead of including ourselves among the journals that devote a section to book reviews in their regular issues, as we have done for many years, we feel that a more focused approach is better suited to our goal of exploring the potentials of anthropological analysis. Adopting from other journals the format of the book symposium, in which a single book is…
Life and its inflections in Kilimanjaro
This article explores a set of vernacular notions used by the Chagga-speaking people of Tanzania's Kilimanjaro Region to investigate how life-moo-is an effect of transfers and transformations of life-force or horu that occur among humans, houses, livestock, and crops. Exploring how they engage and involve a plethora of places, substances, conduits, beings, and processes that derive from the notion of moo, the article investigates how these proces…
Tales of a stitched anus
This article revisits the fiction explored by Sally Falk Moore more than forty years ago that initiation among the Chagga-speaking people of Tanzania's Kilimanjaro region involved men having their anuses plugged and stitched to ensure complete digestion. It combines historical sources and contemporary fieldwork material on which it deploys an anthropological analytic adopted from Marilyn Strathern's account of the partible person of Melanesia. Th…
Covid‐19, dugnad and productive incompleteness
Returning Life
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 Christ…
Chapter 3. Horu
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