books by Gabriele vom Bruck

books by Gabriele vom Bruck

books:

Gabriele vom Bruck

An Anthropology of Names And Naming
Gabriele (EDT)/ Bodenhorn, Barbara (EDT) vom Bruck

Cambridge Univ Pr, 2006

An Anthropology of Names and Naming

Cambridge University Press, 2006

This book is about personal names, something of abiding interest to specialists and lay readers alike. Over a million people have checked the American Name Society website since 1996, for instance. Many philosophers and linguists suggest that names are 'just' labels, but parents internationally are determined to get their children's names 'right'. ...

Islam, Memory, and Morality in Yemen: Ruling Families in Transition (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion)
Gabriele vom Bruck

Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

This book tells a story of a Yemeni hereditary elite that was overthrown in the 1962 revolution in North Yemen, after enjoying exclusive rights to the leadership of the Imamate, the religiously sanctioned state for over a millennium. Rather than concentrating on recent political history, this book highlights the personal predicament of those ...