Personal Names and Naming from an Anthropological-Linguistic Perspective / / ed. by Sambulo Ndlovu.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• MitwirkendeR: Baranauskiene, Rita,; Dammel, Antje,
• HerausgeberIn: Ndlovu, Sambulo,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Anthropological Linguistics [AL] , 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XVI, 375 p.)

This book fills a gap in the literature as it uniquely approaches onomastics from the perspective of both anthropology and linguistics. It addresses names and cultures from 16 countries and five continents, thus offering readers an opportunity to comprehend and compare names and naming practices across cultures. The chapters presented in this book explore the cultural significance of personal names, naming ceremonies, conventions and practices. They illustrate how these names and practices perform certain culture-specific functions, such as religion, identity and social activity. Some chapters address the socio-political significance of personal names and their expression of self and otherness. The book also links the linguistic structure of personal names to culture by looking at their morphology, syntax and semantics. It is divided into four sections: Section 1 demonstrates how personal names perform human culture, Section 2 focuses on how personal names index socio-political transitioning, Section 3 demonstrates religious values in personal names and naming, and Section 4 links linguistic structure and analysis of personal names to culture and heritage.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of maps -- List of tables -- Chapter 1 Introduction: The cultural aspect of personal names -- Section One: The ethnopragmatics of anthroponyms -- Chapter 2 ‘Father of the spotted cow’: Hamar titles and their connection to cattle appearance -- Chapter 3 The shell and the essence: Name transfer among the Hinihon -- Chapter 4 Personal names and motivations for name-giving in western Paraná state, Brazil -- Chapter 5 Nicknames as a socio-cultural phenomenon among Lithuanian youth -- Section Two: Personal naming and cultural transissions -- Chapter 6 The naming gamble: Unique versus common given names -- Chapter 7 From “sprinkling” a blessing to audaciously appropriating a name: Some reflections concerning personal names and naming in the central highlands of Madagascar -- Chapter 8 Organising diversity: Naming groups and their languages in Indigenous Australia -- Chapter 9 Names they left behind: Remembering the times with the White farmers in some parts of Chimanimani and Chipinge in Zimbabwe -- Section Three: Anthroponyms as religious belief and practice -- Chapter 10 This baby’s name is ‘Leaf’ or ‘Garbage heap’: Reading the figurative in selected death prevention names among the Bakonzo -- Chapter 11 Tibetan elements in spirit names in Dongbaism and Dabaism -- Chapter 12 The appropriation of animal names as personal names in Ibibio and Tiv onomastic traditions in Nigeria: An ethnopragmatic study -- Chapter 13 A structural study of Basà death prevention names -- Section Four: Cultural implications in anthroponym typology -- Chapter 14 Typology and motivations for Azerbaijani personal names -- Chapter 15 The grammar of personal names in Saaroa -- Chapter 16 Personal names and naming in Tongan language and culture -- Chapter 17 A descriptive account of the modern Mazahuan onomastic system -- Chapter 18 Gender intimations in the morphology of some Ndebele personal names -- Notes on contributors -- Index