An Anthropology of Names and Naming名字与命名人类学
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作者： Gabriele vom Bruck 著
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出版时间： 2006-4-1字数：版次： 1页数： 302印刷时间： 2006/04/01开本： 16开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780521848633包装： 精装内容简介
This book is about personal names, something of abiding interest to specialists and lay readers alike. Over a million people have checked the American Name Society website since 1996, for instance. Many philosophers and linguists suggest that names are 'just' labels, but parents internationally are determined to get their children's names 'right'. Personal names may be given, lost, traded, stolen and inherited. This collection of essays provides comparative ethnography through which we examine the politics of naming; the extent to which names may be property-like; and the power of names themselves, both to fix and to destabilize personal identity. Our purpose is not only to renew anthropological attention to names and naming, but to show how this intersects with current interests in political processes, the relation between bodies and personal identities, ritual and daily social life.
作者简介
Barbara Bodenhorn is a Newton Trust Lecturer in Social Anthropology and a Fellow of Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge. She has worked with Inupiat in northern Alaska since 1980, publishing on kinship, economic relations, gender, and knowledge systems. Her current research focuses on languages of risk and institutionalized decision-making processes in Mexico as well as the Arctic.
目录
1 "Entangled in Histories": An Introduction to the Anthropology of Names and Naming
2 "Your Child Deserves a Name": Possessive Individualism and the Politics of Memory in Pregnancy Loss
3 Why the Dead Do Not Bear Names: The Orokaiva Name System
4 The Substance of Northwest Amazonian Names
5 Teknonymy and the Evocation of the "Social" Among the Zafimaniry of Madagascar
6 What's in a Name? Name Bestowal and the Identity of Spirits in Mayotte and Northwest Madagascar
7 Calling into Being: Naming and Speaking Names on Alaska's North Slope
8 On Being Named and Not Named: Authority, Persons, and Their Names in Mongolia
9 Injurious Names: Naming, Disavowal, and Recuperation in Contexts of Slavery and Emancipation
10 Where Names Fall Short: Names as Performances in Contemporary Urban South Africa
11 Names as Bodily Signs