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Editorial Foreword

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 September 2002

Thomas R. Trautmann
Thomas R. Trautmann
Affiliation:
History and Anthropology, University of Michigan
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Abstract

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NAMING LIKE A STATE There is a great variety of naming practices around the world, and a largish anthropological literature is dedicated to charting them. The authors of the first article want to bring the state into the discussion. They ask, What happens when the state, with its own way of seeing, wants to know peoplesÕ names?

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Editorial
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , January 2002 , pp. 1 - 3
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© 2002 Society for Comparative Study of Society and History