The anthropology of names and naming /
Vom Bruck, Gabriele.
Bodenhorn, Barbara,1946-
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-269) and index.
"Entangled in histories" : an introduction to the anthropology of names and naming / Barbara Bodenhorn and Gabriele vom Bruck -- "Your child deserves a name" : possessive individualism and the politics of memory in pregnancy loss / Linda Layne -- Why the dead do not bear names : the Orokaiva name system / André Iteanu -- The substance of northwest Amazonian names / Stephen Hugh-Jones -- Teknonymy and the evocation of the "social" among the Zafimaniry of Madagascar / Maurice Bloch -- What's in a name? : name bestowal and the identity of spirits in Mayotte and northwest Madagascar / Michael Lambek -- Calling into being : naming and speaking names on Alaska's north slope / Barbara Bodenhorn -- On being named and not named : authority, persons, and their names in Mongolia / Caroline Humphrey -- Injurious names : naming, disavowal, and recuperation in contexts of slavery and emancipation / Susan Benson -- Where names fall short : names as performances in contemporary urban South Africa / Thomas Blom Hansen -- Names as bodily signs / Gabriele vom Bruck.
Anthropology.
Names, Personal.