Life and its inflections in Kilimanjaro

Becoming and being beyond the metaphoric

Bibliographic Data

ID3040728
AuthorsK C Myhre (0000-0002-4479-5621, University of Oslo, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume9
Issue2
Pages405-420
Publication date2019-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHau Journal of Ethnographic Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2049-1115 • E-ISSN: 2575-1433
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/706042
OpenAlexW2982941799
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited32

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 processes afford and constitute the existence, capacity, health, and well-being of subjects and objects. Investigating how these notions concern efforts to allow different beings to emerge and exist, I argue that moo and horu are not metaphors, but concepts in their own right

Aesthetics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ethnology · Geography · Linguistics · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Tanzania · Vernacular · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Computer Science · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Philosophy · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

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