Chapter published in:
Word Hunters: Field linguists on fieldwork
Edited by Hannah Sarvasy and Diana Forker
[Studies in Language Companion Series 194] 2018
► pp. 9–27

Chapter 2
The magic of names

A fieldworker’s perspective

| James Cook University
Article outline
  • 1.The Amazonian names
    • 1.1The Tariana of the Vaupés River Basin
    • 1.2The naming systems
  • 2.The Manambu of the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea
    • 2.1A multitude of names
    • 2.2The Manambu clans and naming system
    • 2.3The totems, and the terms of address
  • 3.New language, new name
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Abbreviations
  • References
Published online: 22 February 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.194.02aik
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