The anthropology of names and naming
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| Formato: | Ouvrage |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Sumário:
- " Entangled histories ". An introduction to the anthropology of names and naming / Bodenhorn, Barbara, Vom Bruck, Gabriele
- "Your child deserves a name". Possessive individualism and the politics of memory in pregnancy loss / Layne, Linda
- Why the dead do not bear names. The Orokaiva name system / Iteanu, André
- The substance of Northwest Amazonian names / Hugh-Jones, Stephen
- Teknonymy and the evocation of the "social" among the Zafimaniry of Madagascar / Bloch, Maurice
- What's in a name? Name bestowal and the identity of spirits in Mayotte and Northwest Madagascar / Lambek, Michael
- Calling into being. Naming and speaking names on Alaska's North slope / Bodenhorn, Barbara
- On being named and not named. Authority, persons, and their names in Mongolia / Humphrey, Caroline
- Injurious names. Naming, disavowal, and recuperation in contexts of slavery and emancipation / Benson, Susan
- Where names fall short. Names as performances in contemporary urban South Africa / Hansen, Thomas Blom
- Names as bodily signs / Vom Bruck, Gabriele.