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Cover of: The anthropology of names and naming
The anthropology of names and naming
2006, Cambridge University Press
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Cover of: Anthropology of Names and Naming
Anthropology of Names and Naming
2006, Cambridge University Press
in English
Cover of: Anthropology of Names and Naming
Anthropology of Names and Naming
2006, Cambridge University Press
in English
Cover of: ANTHROPOLOGY OF NAMES AND NAMING; ED. BY GABRIELE VOM BRUCK.
ANTHROPOLOGY OF NAMES AND NAMING; ED. BY GABRIELE VOM BRUCK.
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Table of Contents

"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 of pregnancy loss / Linda Layne
Names that do not need people / Andre 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cambridge, New York

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Dewey Decimal Class
929.4
Library of Congress
GN27 .A68 2006, GN27.A68 2006

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Pagination
p. cm.

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OL3404218M
ISBN 10
0521848636
ISBN 13
9780521848633
LCCN
2005019527
OCLC/WorldCat
60931378
Library Thing
4491473
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307557

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