Yoruba names : language, culture, and history
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Yoruba names : language, culture, and history
（Routledge studies in the modern history of Africa）（Routledge focus）
Routledge, 2025
- : hbk
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Content Type: text (ncrcontent), Media Type: unmediated (ncrmedia), Carrier Type: volume (ncrcarrier)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Yoruba naming and a theory of meaning
- Personal names : constructing identities and narrating social experiences
- Oríkì : praising destiny, constructing identities in Yoruba culture
- Place names : language and history
- Pet names : language, resistance, and protest
- Hair names : language and women agency
- Building names : language and politics
- Conclusion : everything can be in a name : reimagining onomastics beyond referentiality
