Sale!

Naming Africans: On the Epistemic Value of Names

Name: Naming Africans: On the Epistemic Value of Names
SKU: EB-51157454
Price: 25.00 USD
Availability: InStock

$25.00

Naming Africans: On the Epistemic Value of Names Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí Digital Instant Download

Author(s): Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí, Hewan Girma

ISBN(s): 9783031134746, 3031134745

File Details: PDF, 4.28 MB

Year: 2023

Language: English

SKU: EB-51157454 Categories: Politics & Philosophy - Ethnography, Society Tags: Epistemic Value, Hewan Girma, Naming Africans, Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí

Description

Naming Africans: On the Epistemic Value of Names – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783031134746,3031134745,9783031134753, 3031134753

Product details:

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎3031134753
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9783031134753
Author: Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí,Hewan Girma

Focusing on the epistemic value of African names, this edited collection is based on the premise that personal names constitute valuable sources of historical and ethnographic information and help to unveil endogenous forms of knowledge. The chapters assembled here document and analyze personal names and naming practices in a slew of African societies on the geographically vast and ethnically diverse continent, including contributions on the naming practices in Angola, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, and Uganda. The contributors to this anthology are scholars from different African language communities who investigate names and naming practices diachronically. Taken together, their work offers a comparative focus that juxtaposes different African cultures and reveals the historical and epistemic significance of given names.

Table contents:

Toward a Genealogy of Gender, Gendered Names, and Naming Practices
Amharic Names, Naming Ceremonies and Memory
Engendering Personal Names in Basaa Culture: From the Origins to the Epic Tradition and Beyond
What’s in a Namesake? The Owambo Naming Practice of Mbushe, Gender, and Community in Namibian Novelist Neshani Andrea’s The Purple Violet of Oshaantu
Mother-Agency and the Currency of Names
Akan “Soul Names” as Archives of Histories and Knowledge: Some Preliminary Thoughts
Names Are Hisses of Divinity from Our Forebears: Exploring Names Through the Lens of Ntsiki Mazwai
Decolonial Epistemologies in Indigenous Names of the Bakiga of Southwest Uganda
Tell Me Your Name and I Will Tell You Who You Are: The Construction of Names in Angola and the Colonial Influence
Epilogue: Diasporic Dis/Connections

People also search:

naming africans: on the epistemic value of names

naming africans on the epistemic value of names

pen name generator for authors

nature of a name person

name generator from multiple names