Naming and Being Knowledges, Identities, and Cultural Politics

Graphic Representation of the Volume's Contents

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction
GWYNEIRA ISAAC, STANISŁAW KORDASIEWICZ, SYLVIA NGO, AND JESSE VAN AMELSVOORT

PART I Root/Route One: Personal Names

What My Name (Doesn't) Tell You

1. My White Woman Name Was Denise
SAYÓ:KLᴧ (IT SNOWS AGAIN) KINDNESS

2. The Cartography of a Name
KEITH S. WILSON

3. Reflections on Names and Identities: "What Do You See in My Name?"
KYUNNEY TAKASAEVA (KÜNNEI TAKAAHAI)

4. Listening in Pinyin: Reflections on Speaking Good English
ANN ANG

5. radbwa ê tiré tik-layé: opossum Pulling Off the Ticks
JONATHAN JOSEPH MAYERS

6 Call Me by My Name (Instagram Project)
GUARINA LOPEZ

Say Their Names

7 Leidy Lost in Translation: Names and Their Stories in Forensic Identification Practices in the Context of Colombian Armed Conflict
MARÍA FERNANDA OLARTE-SIERRA
ILLUSTRATIONS BY GINA URAZAN RAZZINI

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LUZ MARÍA SÁNCHEZ CARDONA

9 "They Called Us Manas": The Transgender Politics of Naming in Maputo, Mozambique
CAIO SIMÕES DE ARAÚJO AND AGHI

Social Media and Naming

10 "I Need a New Name": Confessions of a Chinese Fangirl
YILIA YIJIA QU, VESPER KEYI LONG, JAMIE WONG, AND GRAHAM M. JONES

11 Die Summe meiner Daten (The Sum of My Data)
ELIAS WESSEL

12 Provocative Personas and Speculative Selves: The Alter Ego as Feminist Performance and Algorithmic Resistance
LENA CHEN

13 Digital Identity and Yorùbá Naming
KỌ́ LÁ TÚBỌ̀SÚN

PART II Root/Route Two: Naming and Being in the World

14 Sitsoí yooí: My Ancient Relation from Whence I Evolved
NANCY C. MARYBOY AND DAVID H. BEGAY

15 Names that Make the World
FRANCES MORPHY, DJAMBAWA MARAWILI, HOWARD MORPHY, BREE BLAKEMAN, AND MINITJA MARAWILI

16 tânisi ôma ê-takihtêk wîhêtâwâwasôwin?: What Does It Mean to Be Given a Name?
LANA WHISKEYJACK, KEVIN LEWIS, AND KYLE NAPIER

17 "On This Site": Naming and Indigenous Struggles for Land Rights
JEREMY DENNIS

18 "Ат асмандан дечү эле/A Name Comes from the Sky (Heaven)": The Naming Practices of the Kyrgyz People
MUKARAM TOKTOGULOVA AND ALMAGUL AISARIEVA

19 "Make a Name for Yourself": Senegalese Wrestling Pseudonyms and the Making of a National Tradition
BINA BRODY

20 Naming Minamata Disease
MICHELLE D. J. DAIGLE

PART III Root/Route Three: Naming and Ordering the World

21 Nunulu i ka Lani: A Sky Immensely Filled with Activity, Causing It to Reverberate. The Hawaiian Naming Process of the Papahānaumokuākea Native Hawaiian Cultural Working Group
J. HAUʻOLI LORENZO-ELARCO, HŌKŪOKAHALELANI PIHANA, PELIKA ANDRADE, KANOEʻULALANI MORISHIGE, KANOELANI STEWARD, KALANI QUIOCHO, WALTERBEA ALDEGUER, HOKU CODY, NOAH GOMES, BLANE PŌMAIKAʻI BENEVEDES, AND BRAD KAʻALELEO WONG

22 Birding the Future: Naming and Calling
KRISTA CABALLERO AND FRANK EKEBERG

23 He aha kei te ingoa/What's in a Name?: Renaming the Present to Connect with the Māori Past
CONAL MCCARTHY, RANGI TE KANAWA, AND SIMON JEAN-NEBBACHE

24 Juabáyan, Jabocán (To Name, To Deprive): A Collaborative Research–Action Project to Recover the Kamëntšá World through Names
JULLY ACUÑA SUAREZ, MARCELO MARQUES MIRANDA, AND THE AYENTŠ COLLECTIVE

25 Between the Global and Local in Scientific Naming: Efim Lukin's Case of Coining Zoological Species Names in Ukrainian
KSENIIA UTIEVSKA

26 Chemical Names and the Culture of Modern Chemistry
EVAN HEPLER-SMITH

27 You Are What You Were
TRUDY BORENSTEIN-SUGIURA

PART IV Root/Route Four: Legitimizing and Delegitimizing through Naming

28 "I Am the River, and the River Is Me": Re-Naming and Re-Shaping Legal Categories to Enhance Relationships between Individuals, Communities, and Rivers
STANISŁAW KORDASIEWICZ

29 Reclaiming and Renaming: Understanding Thangmi Identities in a Changing Nepal
KOMINTAL THAMI AKYANGMI, SHANTI THAMI ALTASURI, SARA SHNEIDERMAN, AND MARK TURIN

30 Ghosts of the Past?: Naming the Places of the Displaced
THEODOROS KOUROS AND YIANNIS CHRISTIDIS

31 The Last Yugoslavia
ALLY ZLATAR

32 Wymysorys Surnames and the Vilamovian Community of Memory
TYMOTEUSZ KRÓL

33 What's My Name?: Cultural Politics of Name Change Through DACA
LINDA E. SANCHEZ

34 Atik No More: A Legal Step toward the Elimination of the Legacy of Slavery Carried through Surnames in Tunisia / لا "عتيق" بعد اليوم: خطوة قانونية نحو الغاء مُخَلَّفَات العبودِيَّة التي يحملها اللقب في تونس
SILVIA QUATTRINI

35 The Cartography of a Name: Continued
KEITH S. WILSON

Index

Biography

Gwyneira Isaac is Curator of North American Ethnology at the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) in Washington DC. She is also director of Recovering Voices, a program for endangered language and knowledge revitalization at the NMNH, and lead for the To Be—Named project.

 Stanisław Kordasiewicz holds a PhD from the University of Warsaw, Poland, and coordinated the ‘Minority Languages, Major Opportunities. Collaborative Research, Community Engagement, and Innovative Educational Tools’ (COLING) project.

 Sylvia Ngo is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at George Washington University, USA.

 Tomasz Wicherkiewicz is Professor of Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.

 Kyunney Takasaeva (Künnei Takaahai) is the coordinator of the Polish-Siberian research group in the Faculty of ‘Artes Liberales’ at the University of Warsaw, Poland.