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Naming Africans: On the Epistemic Value of Names

Naming Africans: On the Epistemic Value of Names

Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónkẹ́
Girma, Hewan

Hardcover

Series: Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora

AnthropologyGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 3031134745
ISBN13: 9783031134746
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jun 9 2023
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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.

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