ANTB21H3 Lecture 6: Lecture 6 Feb.14.12.docx
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Want to forget the socio-cultural context, you"d want to put love over anything. Our name helps us index" our connection to the social world. Shakespeare playing with the performativity of naming someone. Name is only attached to the person through utterance. Baptism as a form of initiation into community therefore allowing for social interaction therefore indexical. Rituals like naming really stand out, but also have many smaller scale rituals. Creating or enacting an indexical link back to the time you first received your name. Name given at birth is inseparable without social identity. Name becomes the sign" o f that initiation. When someone re-baptizes you with another name = sense of authority. Some names do not bear a formal relationship to their westernized name. Set of forms by which we are all called and referred to by them.
