Pina-Cabral, Joao (2010) The truth of personal names. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 16 (2). pp. 297-312. ISSN 1359-0987. (doi:10.1111/j.1467-9655.2010.01626.x) (KAR id:31204)
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2010.01626.x |
Abstract
Portuguese-speakers, when asked about their personal names, often respond with a notion of the
‘truth of’ their names. Basing itself on ethnographic data collected by the author in Macao (southern
China), Bahia (Brazil), and Portugal, the article interprets this notion of truth as a form of ontological
weighing that postulates the unitariness of the person by reference to a subjection to a bureaucratic
order and to a cultural and linguistic universe associated to it.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2010.01626.x |
Uncontrolled keywords: | Person; Names; Brazil; Macau; China |
Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Anthropology and Conservation |
Depositing User: | Joao de Pina Cabral |
Date Deposited: | 03 Oct 2012 11:59 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2021 10:09 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/31204 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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