LEADER 05033nam 22006615 450 001 9910731472103321 005 20230810180014.0 010 $a3-031-13475-3 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-13475-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30590879 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30590879 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-13475-3 035 $a(CKB)26872285600041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9926872285600041 100 $a20230608d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aNaming Africans $eOn the Epistemic Value of Names /$fedited by Oyèrónk?? Oy?wùmí, Hewan Girma 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (231 pages) 225 1 $aGender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora 311 08$aPrint version: Oy?wùmí, Oyèrónk?? Naming Africans Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031134746 327 $a1.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. 330 $a?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 Oy?wùmí 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. 410 0$aGender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora 606 $aEthnology$xAfrica 606 $aCulture 606 $aSex 606 $aAnthropology 606 $aSociology 606 $aAfrican Culture 606 $aGender Studies 606 $aAnthropology 606 $aSociology 615 0$aEthnology$xAfrica. 615 0$aCulture. 615 0$aSex. 615 0$aAnthropology. 615 0$aSociology. 615 14$aAfrican Culture. 615 24$aGender Studies. 615 24$aAnthropology. 615 24$aSociology. 676 $a929.44096 676 $a929.44096 700 $aOy?wùmí$b Oyèrónk??$01043790 701 $aGirma$b Hewan$01369229 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910731472103321 996 $aNaming Africans$93395278 997 $aUNINA