namedness

By declaring their many-namedness in interviews, by "forgetting" official names, by exhaustively listing female kinfolk while professing not to know the history of their xivongo, women were rejecting attemptsby clan and lineage authorities, Europeans, potentially meto denominate and control their identities as singular historical subjects.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005