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Naming and Othering in Africa: Imagining Supremacy and Inferiority through Language

Naming and Othering in Africa: Imagining Supremacy and Inferiority through Language

Paperback

Series: Routledge African Studies

Genealogy & HeraldryLinguisticsGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0367773155
ISBN13: 9780367773151
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 25 2023
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book examines how names in Africa have been fashioned to create dominance and subjugation, inclusion and exclusion, others and self. Highlighting social power dynamics through onomastics, this book will be of interest to researchers of onomastics, social anthropology, sociolinguistics and African culture and history.

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