Martha B. Kendall (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 261-273 pages with cited references. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Journal of Anthropological Research Volume 36, Number 3 complete issue. First edition. In Americanist scholarly traditions, Indian personal names are frequently treated as linguistic or cultural objects--i.e., as signs whose meanings can be established without reference to social interaction. Among the Northern Yuman tribes of Arizona however, names must be considered abbreviated texts or allusions to narratives, whose significance is social as well as cultural. Northern Yuman names are connected with indigenous theories of the soul and the person on the cultural level, while on the social level taboos connected with them regulate and reinforce patterns of social interactions. Northern Yuman naming systems, formerly characterized as "trivial" and "inconsequential," are in fact semiotically complex and anthropologically salient when examined with attention to detail. Condition: Spine sunned, light edge wear else very good.…