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Moreover, the act of name-giving began to happen more often in circumstances sufficiently removed from women's everyday experience that narratingor even rememberingthis moment of identity-creation was difficult later in life.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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For the vast majority of interviewees, it is difficult to argue that family nucleation or broadening inter-ethnic relations had redefined the "social unit" of name-giving to such an extent that names, increasingly Europeanized, were losing their social meaning by the 1920s.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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Even when articulated as narrative, as in tales of name-giving or in life stories, women's forms of remembering do not look or sound much like conventional academic history: They never profess to be empirically truthful statements (or even narrative constructions) of what happened in the past, attempt explicitly to describe or interpret patterns of change, or chronicle events anchored in linear, dated time.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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Although we must stress that this is not our area of expertise, we add here some paragraphs on how modern Greek name-giving has been influenced by the past, and how some ancient names came through to be used in the modern world.
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Lypton Village was the name of the surrealistic street gang Bono and his friends were part of, where name-giving was one of the rituals.
Bono On Bono Assayas, Michka 2005
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A simple name-giving ceremony was held in Hospital, where the grandfather (Ismail Rasool) named the boy Tanwir Sadar.
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Or has he by way of the language caught the German mania for name-giving, dividing the Creation finer and finer, analyzing, setting namer more hopelessly apart from named, even to bringing in the mathematics of combination, tacking together established nouns to get new ones, the insanely, endlessly diddling play of a chemist whose molecules are words ....
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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The Noachian genealogies which lead to Abraham, with their shadowy tribes and eponymous name-giving heroes, the wars of Isaac with Ishmael and Jacob with
MYTH IN BIBLICAL TIMES FRANCIS LEE UTLEY 1968
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With them the baptism of their children is the ordinance of name-giving.
The Christian Home Samuel Philips
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The folk-lore and ceremonial of name-giving are discussed at length in
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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