ISBN:
0521848636
,
9780521848633
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 290 S
,
Ill.
,
24 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
DDC:
929.4
Keywords:
Anthropology
;
Names, Personal
;
Anthropology
;
Names, Personal
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Begriff
;
Sozialanthropologie
;
Bezeichnung
;
Sozialanthropologie
;
Ethnologie
;
Namengebung
Description / Table of 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Formerly CIP
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0515/2005019527.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0633/2005019527-d.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0733/2005019527-b.html
