An Anthropology of Names and Naming

Herausgeber: Vom Bruck, Gabriele; Bruck, Gabriele Vom; Bodenhorn, Barbara

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides the tools through which we examine the politics and power of names.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9780521121712
• ISBN-10: 052112171X
• Artikelnr.: 27064762

Inhaltsangabe

1. 'Entangled in histories': an introduction to the anthropology of names
and naming Barbara Bodenhorn and Gabriele vom Bruck; 2. 'Your child
deserves a name': possessive individualism and the politics of memory of
pregnancy loss Linda Layne; 3. Names that do not need people André Iteanu;
4. The substance of northwest Amazonian names Stephen Hugh-Jones; 5.
Teknonymy and the evocation of the 'social' among the Zafimaniry of
Madagascar Maurice Bloch; 6. What's in a name? Name bestowal and the
identity of spirits in Mayotte and Northwest Madagascar Michael Lambek; 7.
Calling into being: naming and speaking names on Alaska's North Slope
Barbara Bodenhorn; 8. On being named and not named: authority, persons and
their names in Mongolia Caroline Humphrey; 9. Injurious names: naming,
disavowal and recuperation in contexts of slavery and emancipation Susan
Benson; 10. Where names fall short: names as performances in contemporary
urban South Africa Thomas Blom Hansen; 11. Names as bodily signs Gabriele
vom Bruck.