http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
1 online resource ( x, 127 pages) : illustrations.
What's in a name? -- Yoruba naming and meaning -- Personal names: Constructing identities and narrating social experiences -- Oríkì: Praising destiny, constructing identities in Yoruba culture -- Place names: Language and history -- Pet names: Language, resistance, and protest -- Hair names: Language and women's agency -- Building names: Language and politics -- Everything can be in a name: Reimagining onomastics beyond referentiality.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Routledge studies in the modern history of Africa