ANTB21H3 Lecture : week6.docx
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God creates through naming = cross cultural creating social relations to thinking about how religious traditions involve ritual events to help communicate with a divine person. Pritchard: nuer using names in how they collect and hunter. Performativity of naming someone by shakespeare: once we get our names = connected to the social world. Baptism) i. e. i name this ship the queen elizabeth initiation to a certain community = indexical link of the name to the social world. Not always saying it but you"re always conscious of it. Some nicknames = no connection with formal name (i. e. in south asia) E. g. chinese name = english speakers are not able to say chinese name language ideology = that"s your indexical link to the social world and representation of that initiation. Blum on chinese introductions: parent teaching their children to refer in the correct way, e. g. ritualized routine into initiating that person into social context this is factory-head ji.
