Output details
24 - Anthropology and Development Studies
University of St Andrews
Article title
Uma história de nomes : a alcunha, o primeiro nome e o apelido no Pará, norte do Brasil
Type
D - Journal article
DOI
-
Title of journal
Etnográfica
Article number
-
Volume number
12
Issue number
1
First page of article
215
ISSN of journal
0873-6561
Year of publication
2008
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
-
Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
This article examines three parts of a person’s name across three different periods in Pará, Brazil. What do naming practices reveal about the person and the play of personal and collective identities? The argument seeks to demonstrate the transgressive power of names, the way they move between contexts and subvert conventions. What role did names play amongst those that survived conquest and those that settled in the Portuguese Amazon? The conclusion suggests that names are central vehicles of cultural continuity.
