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Informationen zum Autor 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. Gabriele vom Bruck is currently a lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Previously! she held the post of visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. She has published in a number of leading journals such as Signs and Analles. Additonally! she has been awarded the Studeienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes and has completed extended research in the Republic of Yemen. Klappentext 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 and the power of names themselves! both to fix and to destabilize personal identity. This book illustrates the intersection of names and naming with current interests in political processes! the relation between bodies and personal identities! ritual! and daily social life. Zusammenfassung Many philosophers and linguists suggest that names are 'just' labels! but parents internationally are determined to get their children's names 'right'. This book illustrates the intersection of names and naming with current interests in political processes! the relation between bodies and personal identities! and ritual and daily social life. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. 'Entangled in histories': an introduction to the anthropology of names and naming Barbara Bodenhorn and Gabriele vom Bruck; 2. 'Your child deserves a name': possessive individualism and the politics of memory of pregnancy loss Linda Layne; 3. Names that do not need people André Iteanu; 4. The substance of northwest Amazonian names Stephen Hugh-Jones; 5. Teknonymy and the evocation of the 'social' among the Zafimaniry of Madagascar Maurice Bloch; 6. What's in a name? Name bestowal and the identity of spirits in Mayotte and Northwest Madagascar Michael Lambek; 7. Calling into being: naming and speaking names on Alaska's North Slope Barbara Bodenhorn; 8. On being named and not named: authority, persons and their names in Mongolia Caroline Humphrey; 9. Injurious names: naming, disavowal and recuperation in contexts of slavery and emancipation Susan Benson; 10. Where names fall short: names as performances in contemporary urban South Africa Thomas Blom Hansen; 11. Names as bodily signs Gabriele vom Bruck....
