The anthropology of names and naming / edited by Gabriele vom Bruck, Barbara Bodenhorn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vom Bruck, Gabriele.

Bodenhorn, Barbara, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology.

Names, Personal.

Physical Description:

xii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-269) and index.

ISBN:

0521848636

OCLC:

60931378

Publisher Number:

9780521848633

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