Barbara Bodenhorn / Gabriele vom Bruck (eds.)

Gebundenes Buch

An Anthropology of Names and Naming

Beschreibung

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.

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 École des Hautes Études 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 647g
• ISBN-13: 9780521848633
• ISBN-10: 0521848636
• Artikelnr.: 22092923