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 inteationally 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.
The Anthropology of Names and Naming (Ed. by G. vom Bruck and B. Bodenhorn)
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