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The anthropology of names and naming
- Title
- The anthropology of names and naming / edited by Gabriele vom Bruck, Barbara Bodenhorn.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xii, 290 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-269) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- GN27
- ISBN
- 0521848636 (hardback)
- 9780521848633 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2005019527
- 9780521848633
- OCLC
- 60931378
- Title
- The anthropology of names and naming / edited by Gabriele vom Bruck, Barbara Bodenhorn.
- Imprint
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-269) and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Vom Bruck, Gabriele.Bodenhorn, Barbara, 1946-
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780521848633
- Research Call Number
- *R-USLHG GN27 .A68 2006