The anthropology of names and naming / edited by Gabriele vom Bruck, Barbara Bodenhorn.
| Call Number | 929.4 |
| Title | The anthropology of names and naming / edited by Gabriele vom Bruck, Barbara Bodenhorn. An Anthropology of Names & Naming |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xii, 290 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Contents | "Entangled in histories" : an introduction to the anthropology of names and naming / Barbara Bodenhorn and Gabriele vom Bruck -- "Your child deserves a name" : possessive individualism and the politics of memory in pregnancy loss / Linda Layne -- Why the dead do not bear names : the Orokaiva name system / André Iteanu -- The substance of northwest Amazonian names / Stephen Hugh-Jones -- Teknonymy and the evocation of the "social" among the Zafimaniry of Madagascar / Maurice Bloch -- What's in a name? : name bestowal and the identity of spirits in Mayotte and northwest Madagascar / Michael Lambek -- Calling into being : naming and speaking names on Alaska's north slope / Barbara Bodenhorn -- On being named and not named : authority, persons, and their names in Mongolia / Caroline Humphrey -- Injurious names : naming, disavowal, and recuperation in contexts of slavery and emancipation / Susan Benson -- Where names fall short : names as performances in contemporary urban South Africa / Thomas Blom Hansen -- Names as bodily signs / Gabriele vom Bruck. |
| Summary | This book is about personal names, something of abiding interest to specialists and lay readers alike. Over a million people have checked the American Name Society website since 1996, for instance. Many philosophers and linguists suggest that names are 'just' labels, but parents internationally are determined to get their children's names 'right'. Personal names may be given, lost, traded, stolen and inherited. This collection of essays provides comparative ethnography through which we examine the politics of naming; the extent to which names may be property-like; and the power of names themselves, both to fix and to destabilize personal identity. Our purpose is not only to renew anthropological attention to names and naming, but to show how this intersects with current interests in political processes, the relation between bodies and personal identities, ritual and daily social life. |
| Added Author | Vom Bruck, Gabriele, editor. Bodenhorn, Barbara, 1946- editor. |
| Subject | ANTHROPOLOGY. Names, Personal. |
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| Summary | This book is about personal names, something of abiding interest to specialists and lay readers alike. Over a million people have checked the American Name Society website since 1996, for instance. Many philosophers and linguists suggest that names are 'just' labels, but parents internationally are determined to get their children's names 'right'. Personal names may be given, lost, traded, stolen and inherited. This collection of essays provides comparative ethnography through which we examine the politics of naming; the extent to which names may be property-like; and the power of names themselves, both to fix and to destabilize personal identity. Our purpose is not only to renew anthropological attention to names and naming, but to show how this intersects with current interests in political processes, the relation between bodies and personal identities, ritual and daily social life. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Contents | "Entangled in histories" : an introduction to the anthropology of names and naming / Barbara Bodenhorn and Gabriele vom Bruck -- "Your child deserves a name" : possessive individualism and the politics of memory in pregnancy loss / Linda Layne -- Why the dead do not bear names : the Orokaiva name system / André Iteanu -- The substance of northwest Amazonian names / Stephen Hugh-Jones -- Teknonymy and the evocation of the "social" among the Zafimaniry of Madagascar / Maurice Bloch -- What's in a name? : name bestowal and the identity of spirits in Mayotte and northwest Madagascar / Michael Lambek -- Calling into being : naming and speaking names on Alaska's north slope / Barbara Bodenhorn -- On being named and not named : authority, persons, and their names in Mongolia / Caroline Humphrey -- Injurious names : naming, disavowal, and recuperation in contexts of slavery and emancipation / Susan Benson -- Where names fall short : names as performances in contemporary urban South Africa / Thomas Blom Hansen -- Names as bodily signs / Gabriele vom Bruck. |
| Subject | ANTHROPOLOGY. Names, Personal. |
| Multimedia |