Personal Names In Asia

Author : Yangwen Zheng
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Personal Names in Asia written by Yangwen Zheng and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's population negotiates a multiplicity of naming systems. Some are compatible with the "normative" system of the world of passports and identity cards but a great many are not. This is particularly true in Asia, a region with some of the most sophisticated naming devices found anywhere in the world, including nicknames and teknonyms, religious and corporation names, honor and death names, pseudonyms and retirement names, house names and clan names, local and foreign names, official and private names. People across the continent carry multiple names meaningful to different audiences. Some are used only in family relations while others locate individuals in terms of gender, ethnicity, religion, caste, class, and nation. The centrality of names to many of the crucial debates and preoccupations of the modern world â " identity, hybridity, migration, nationalism, multi-culturalism, globalization â " makes it particularly surprising that there has been little systematic comparative exploration of Asian names and naming systems. This path-breaking volume classifies and theorizes the systems underlying naming practices in Asia, especially in Southeast Asia where systems are abundant and fluid. Using historical and socio-anthropological perspectives, the authors of this exceptionally close collaborative effort show the intricate connections between naming systems, notions of personhood and the prevailing ethos of interpersonal relations. They also show how the peoples of Asia are fashioning new types of naming and different ways of identifying themselves to suit the demands of a changing world.

Author : Knut Leonard Tallqvist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assyrian Personal Names written by Knut Leonard Tallqvist and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fiona Swee-Lin Price
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1741762294
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Success with Asian Names written by Fiona Swee-Lin Price and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handy little guide to the correct usage and pronunciation of names from the main countries across the Asian region. It is designed for anyone who manages mailing lists, teaches international students or interacts regularly with people from anywhere in Asia.

Author : Emma Woo Louie
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786438770
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese American Names written by Emma Woo Louie and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-07-16 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The naming practices of Chinese Americans are the focus of this work. Since Chinese immigration began in the mid-19th century, names of immigrants and their descendants have been influenced by both Chinese and American name customs. This detailed study first describes the naming traditions of China, providing a base for understanding how personal names may change in the interaction between cultures. One discovers that surnames are clues to Chinese dialect sounds, that many have been Americanized, that new surnames were created and that, in more recent decades as the Chinese American population has grown, new names practices developed and surnames have proliferated. Included are ideographs to surnames and an overview of their preservation by Americans of Chinese descent.

Author : Peter M. Fraser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780198816881
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book “A” Lexicon of Greek Personal Names written by Peter M. Fraser and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the eighth volume of the 'Lexicon of Greek Personal Names' and the third of three volumes that comprise the personal names attested in Asia Minor. This particular volume is concerned with its interior, incorporating the ancient regions of Phrygia, Milyas, Pisidia, Galatia, Kappadokia, Paphlagonia, Pontos, and Armenia Minor, among others.

Author : Robert Parker
Publisher : British Academy
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Personal Names in Ancient Anatolia written by Robert Parker and published by British Academy. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Anatolia was a region where indigenous peoples mixed with conquerors and incomers: Persians, Greeks, Gauls, Romans, Jews. Names from all these sources intermingled, and it is by studying them that the cultural interactions and changes and resistances that occurred can be illuminated.

Author : Peter Marshall Fraser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198705824
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names written by Peter Marshall Fraser and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the seventh volume of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names to be published, a work which offers comprehensive documentation of named individuals in the Greek-speaking world in the period from c. 700 BC to 600 AD, drawn from all sources (predominantly written in Greek and to a lesser extent in Latin). It is the second of three volumes that comprise the personal names attested in Asia Minor. This particular volume is concerned with its southern coast, incorporating the ancient regions of Caria, Lycia, Pamphylia, and Cilicia, and thus completes coverage of the coastal regions. The volume documents more than 44,500 individuals who between them bore in excess of 8,400 different names. In contrast to those parts of Asia Minor facing the Aegean, Propontis, and Black Sea, there was little Greek settlement along the southern coast. So, in this volume particular interest attaches to the very large number of non-Greek names originating in the languages of the indigenous peoples of these regions - Carian, Lycian, Sidetic, and Pisidian - all of them descended from the Hittite-Luwian languages spoken in Anatolia in the second and early first millennia BC. The volume provides the raw material that allows us to see how indigenous names gave way first to Greek and later to Latin names, and how the pace of these changes varies from one region to another as one aspect of those processes of acculturation labelled as 'hellenization' and 'Romanization'. It contains a detailed introduction which addresses the definition of each of the regions and their cultural identity in terms both of geography and language and onomastics. It also guides the user through some of the problems of topography, dialect, and the treatment of non-Greek names, as well as providing some detailed statistics that point to interesting regional patterns.

Author : Rafis Abazov
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313056188
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture and Customs of the Central Asian Republics written by Rafis Abazov and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-12-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Central Asian Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan won their independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Now they are emerging from the shadow of dominance and are subjects of intense interest from the West. The modern culture and customs of the various peoples in these geopolitical hotspots, straddling the far reaches of Europe into Asia, are revealed to a general audience for the first time. This will be the must-have volume for a broad, authoritative overview of these traditional civilizations as they cope with globalization.

Author : Bryan S. Turner
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845455507
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Body in Asia written by Bryan S. Turner and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past few decades have seen growing interest in the study of the body. However, the increasing number of exciting and influential publications has primarily, if not exclusively, focused on the body in Western cultures. The various works produced by Asian scholars remain largely unknown to Western academic debates even though Asia is home to a host of rich body cultures and religions. The peoples of Asia have experienced colonization, decolonization, and now globalization, all of which make the 'body in Asia' a rewarding field of research. This unique volume brings together a number of scholars who work on East, Southeast and South Asia and presents original and cutting edge research on the body in various Asian cultures.

Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnamese Personal Names written by United States. Central Intelligence Agency and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: