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Naming Africans = on the epistemic value of names /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Naming Africans/ edited by Oyeronke Oyewumi, Hewan Girma.
Reminder of title:	on the epistemic value of names /
other author:	Oyewumi, Oyeronke.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2023.,
Description:	xvii, 220 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Names, Personal - Africa. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13475-3
ISBN:	9783031134753

Naming Africans = on the epistemic value of names /
Naming Africanson the epistemic value of names /[electronic resource] :edited by Oyeronke Oyewumi, Hewan Girma. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2023. - xvii, 220 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Gender and cultural studies in Africa and the diaspora. - Gender and cultural studies in Africa and the diaspora..

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.

"Naming Africans: On the Epistemic Value of Names is a timely and ground-breaking collection of cutting-edge perspectives on epistemic affirmation across Global Africa. The interdisciplinary meeting of the humanities and social sciences provokes an intellectual curiosity that should take readers to a deeper questioning of the origins and values of the naming in their evolving social contexts." -N'Dri Therese Assie-Lumumba, Professor of Africana Studies and and Director of the Institute for African Development (IAD) at Cornell University "a must-read for anyone who wants to understand how Africans document, archive, preserve, and update their knowledge." -Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Massachusetts Institute of Technology 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. Oyèrónké Oyěwùmí is Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University, New York and Professor Extraordinarius in the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of South Africa (UNISA) Hewan Girma is Assistant Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies Program at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

ISBN: 9783031134753

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-13475-3doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1415299
Names, Personal
--Africa.

LC Class. No.: CS3065

Dewey Class. No.: 929.44096

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