{"product_id":"naming-africans-on-the-epistemic-value-of-names-9783031134746","title":"Naming Africans: On the Epistemic Value of Names","description":"\u003cp\u003eFocusing on the epistemic value of African names, this edited collection is based on the premise that personal names constitute valuable sources of historical and ethnographic information and help to unveil endogenous forms of knowledge. The chapters assembled here document and analyze personal names and naming practices in a slew of African societies on the geographically vast and ethnically diverse continent, including contributions on the naming practices in Angola, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, and Uganda. The contributors to this anthology are scholars from different African language communities who investigate names and naming practices diachronically. Taken together, their work offers a comparative focus that juxtaposes different African cultures and reveals the historical and epistemic significance of given names.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOyeronke Oyewumi\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University, New York and the winner of the African Studies Association's 2021 Distinguished Africanist Award. A renowned gender scholar, Oyewumi is the author of several books, including the award-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWhat Gender is Motherhood: Changing Yoruba Ideals of Power, Procreation, and Identity in the Age of Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the editor of a number of books, including \u003ci\u003eAfrican Women and Feminism: Reflecting on the Politics of Sisterhood\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGender Epistemologies: Gendering Traditions, Spaces, Social Institutions, and Identities\u003c\/i\u003e, and was the founding editor of the Palgrave book series Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHewan Girma\u003c\/b\u003e received her Ph.D. in Sociology and a Certificate in Women's Studies from Stony Brook University, New York. She is currently Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the African American and African Diaspora Studies Program at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She is the co-founder and co-director of the Ethiopian, East African and Indian Ocean Research Network. Her work has been published in \u003ci\u003eSocial Problems\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSociology Compass\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Black Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Ethiopian Studies.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Palgrave MacMillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50865567138066,"sku":"9783031134746","price":138.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_183fcec1-b39f-4aef-b6c9-06421eb98337.jpg?v=1737679586","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/naming-africans-on-the-epistemic-value-of-names-9783031134746","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}