The Anthropology Of Names And Naming

Author : Gabriele vom Bruck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521121712
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Anthropology of Names and Naming written by Gabriele vom Bruck and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Carole Hough
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019163042X
Total Pages : 801 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming written by Carole Hough and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this handbook, scholars from around the world offer an up-to-date account of the state of the art in different areas of onomastics, in a format that is both useful to specialists in related fields and accessible to the general reader. Since Ancient Greece, names have been regarded as central to the study of language, and this has continued to be a major theme of both philosophical and linguistic enquiry throughout the history of Western thought. The investigation of name origins is more recent, as is the study of names in literature. Relatively new is the study of names in society, which draws on techniques from sociolinguistics and has gradually been gathering momentum over the last few decades. The structure of this volume reflects the emergence of the main branches of name studies, in roughly chronological order. The first Part focuses on name theory and outlines key issues about the role of names in language, focusing on grammar, meaning, and discourse. Parts II and III deal with the study of place-names and personal names respectively, while Part IV outlines contrasting approaches to the study of names in literature, with case studies from different languages and time periods. Part V explores the field of socio-onomastics, with chapters relating to the names of people, places, and commercial products. Part VI then examines the interdisciplinary nature of name studies, before the concluding Part presents a selection of animate and inanimate referents ranging from aircraft to animals, and explains the naming strategies adopted for them.

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Author : Stanley Lieberson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300083859
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Matter of Taste written by Stanley Lieberson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What accounts for our tastes? Why and how do they change over time? Stanley Lieberson analyzes children's first names to develop an original theory of fashion. He disputes the commonly-held notion that tastes in names (and other fashions) simply reflect societal shifts.

Author : Oliviu Felecan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030731863
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Names and Naming written by Oliviu Felecan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book examines names and naming policies, trends and practices in a variety of multicultural contexts across America, Europe, Africa and Asia. In the first part of the book, the authors take theoretical and practical approaches to the study of names and naming in these settings, exploring legal, societal, political and other factors. In the second part of the book, the authors explore ways in which names mirror and contribute to the construction of identity in areas defined by multiculturalism. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to onomastics, and it will be of interest to scholars working across a number of fields, including linguistics, sociology, anthropology, politics, geography, history, religion and cultural studies.

Author : Terhi Ainiala
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027265690
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socio-onomastics written by Terhi Ainiala and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-06-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume seeks to establish socio-onomastics as a field of linguistic inquiry not only within sociolinguistics, but also, and in particular, within pragmatics. The linguistic study of names has a very long history, but also a history sometimes fraught with skepticism, and thus often neglected by linguists in other fields. The volume takes on the challenge of instituting onomastic study into linguistics and pragmatics by focusing on recent trends within socio-onomastics, interactional onomastics, contact onomastics, folk onomastics, and linguistic landscape studies. The volume is an introduction to these fields – with the introductory chapter giving an overview of, and an update on, recent onomastic study – and in addition offers detailed in-depth analyses of place names, person names, street names and commercial names from different perspectives: historically, as well as from the point of view of the impact of globalization and glocalization. All the chapters focus on the use and function of names and naming, on changes in name usage, and on the reasons for, processes in, and results of names in contact.

Author : Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789202116
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany written by Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the many political and social upheavals of the early modern era, names were words to conjure by, articulating significant historical trends and helping individuals and societies make sense of often dramatic periods of change. Centered on onomastics—the study of names—in the German-speaking lands, this volume, gathering leading scholars across multiple disciplines, explores the dynamics and impact of naming (and renaming) processes in a variety of contexts—social, artistic, literary, theological, and scientific—in order to enhance our understanding of individual and collective experiences.

Author : Ágoston Berecz
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789206359
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empty Signs, Historical Imaginaries written by Ágoston Berecz and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a multiethnic region of the nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire, this thoroughly interdisciplinary study maps out how the competing Romanian, Hungarian and German nationalization projects dealt with proper names. With particular attention to their function as symbols of national histories, Berecz makes a case for names as ideal guides for understanding historical imaginaries and how they operate socially. In tracing the changing fortunes of nationalization movements and the ways in which their efforts were received by mass constituencies, he provides an innovative and compelling account of the historical utilization, manipulation, and contestation of names.

Author : Sambulo Ndlovu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110759292
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Personal Names and Naming from an Anthropological-Linguistic Perspective written by Sambulo Ndlovu and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-08-07 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book fills a gap in the literature as it uniquely approaches onomastics from the perspective of both anthropology and linguistics. It addresses names and cultures from 16 countries and five continents, thus offering readers an opportunity to comprehend and compare names and naming practices across cultures. The chapters presented in this book explore the cultural significance of personal names, naming ceremonies, conventions and practices. They illustrate how these names and practices perform certain culture-specific functions, such as religion, identity and social activity. Some chapters address the socio-political significance of personal names and their expression of self and otherness. The book also links the linguistic structure of personal names to culture by looking at their morphology, syntax and semantics. It is divided into four sections: Section 1 demonstrates how personal names perform human culture, Section 2 focuses on how personal names index socio-political transitioning, Section 3 demonstrates religious values in personal names and naming, and Section 4 links linguistic structure and analysis of personal names to culture and heritage.

Author : Richard D. Alford
Publisher : Human Relations Area Files (HRAF)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Naming and Identity written by Richard D. Alford and published by Human Relations Area Files (HRAF). This book was released on 1988 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: