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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "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.