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The anthropology of names and naming /
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 internatio...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 290 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-269) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511168667 9780511168666 0511169094 9780511169090 9780511499630 0511499639 1280449349 9781280449345 0521848636 9780521848633 9780521121712 052112171X 1107153077 9781107153073 0511167679 9780511167676 0511312288 9780511312281 0511168217 9780511168215 |