Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index
Contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
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- An Anthropology of Names and Naming , pp. vii - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006