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Naming Africans

On the Epistemic Value of Names
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
220 Seiten
Englisch
Springererschienen am09.06.20242023
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.mehr
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KlappentextFocusing 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.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-3-031-13477-7
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum09.06.2024
Auflage2023
ReiheGender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
Seiten220 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht316 g
IllustrationenXVII, 220 p. 2 illus.
Artikel-Nr.56450643

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
1.Introduction: What is Not in A Name? On the Epistemic Value of African Personal Names and Naming Practices.- 2. Toward a Genealogy of Gender, Gendered Names, and Naming Practices by Oyeronke Oyewumi.- 3. Amharic Names and Ethiopian Naming Ceremonies.- 4. Engendering Personal Names in Basaa Culture: From the Origins to the Epic Tradition and Beyond.- 5. What´s in a Namesake: The Mbushe and Gender in Owambo Naming Practices in The Purple Violet of Oshaantu.- 6. Names are sighs of divinity from our forebears: Exploring names through the lens of Ntsiki Mazwai.- 7. Decolonial Epistemologies in Indigenous Names of the Bakiga of Southwest Uganda.- 8. Mother-Agency and the Currency of Names: Gender, Power and the Privilege of Naming among the Maragoli of Kenya.- 9. Akan Day Names as Archives of Indigenous Knowledge:  Some Preliminary Thoughts.- 10. Tell me your name and I will tell you who you are: the construction of names in Angola and the colonial influence.- 11. Naming Practices and Language Planning Zimbabwe.mehr

Autor

Oyeronke Oyewumi is Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University, New York and the winner of the African Studies Association's 2021 Distinguished Africanist Award. A renowned gender scholar, Oyewumi is the author of several books, including the award-winning The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses, and What Gender is Motherhood: Changing Yoruba Ideals of Power, Procreation, and Identity in the Age of Modernity. She is the editor of a number of books, including African Women and Feminism: Reflecting on the Politics of Sisterhood, and Gender Epistemologies: Gendering Traditions, Spaces, Social Institutions, and Identities, and was the founding editor of the Palgrave book series Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora.



Hewan Girma received her Ph.D. in Sociology and a Certificate in Women's Studies from Stony Brook University, New York. She is currently Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the African American and African Diaspora Studies Program at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She is the co-founder and co-director of the Ethiopian, East African and Indian Ocean Research Network. Her work has been published in Social Problems, Sociology Compass, the Journal of Black Studies, and the International Journal of Ethiopian Studies.
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