The anthropology of names and naming
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| Μορφή: | Βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York
Cambridge University Press
2006
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- "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 / Andre 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.
