To be given names : displaced social positionalities in Senegal and Angola
- During fieldwork, anthropologists are given many names that point to their intersectional placement regarding race, class, gender, nationality, and religion. Yet, careful consideration of vernacular forms of designation reveals that such generalizing categories do not always reflect the ways in which people are named and positioned in a given context. While acknowledging the relevance of intersectionality, this paper discusses the relationship between naming and social positionality through a comparative consideration of names employed to designate Dulley in Angola and Santos in Senegal. It explores how these designators, ascribed to the researchers by their interlocutors, contextually identify their positionality. Through concrete examples, it shows how this process of emplacement can both enable and restrict one's possibilities of action and experience.
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| Author: | Iracema DulleyORCiDGND, Frederico Santos dos SantosORCiD |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-838345 |
| URL: | https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-29/dulleysantos_to-be-given-names.pdf |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-29_07 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-96558-068-8 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-96558-069-5 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-96558-067-1 |
| ISSN: | 2627-731X |
| Parent Title (English): | Displacing theory through the Global South / ed. by Iracema Dulley and Özgün Eylül İşcen ; Cultural Inquiry ; 29 |
| Publisher: | ICI Berlin Press |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2024/04/19 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2024 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2024/05/14 |
| Tag: | Ethnography; Naming; Positionality |
| GND Keyword: | Feldforschung; Ethnologe; Name; Angola; Senegal |
| Page Number: | 20 |
| First Page: | 93 |
| Last Page: | 109 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
| 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik | |
| Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
| CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin | |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY-SA - Namensnennung - Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 International |
