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Article: Personal names as narrative in Fiji: politics of the Lauan onomasticon.
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- Ethnology
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1994 University of Pittsburgh, Department of Anthropology. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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In every society, proper names, as well as all words that are being used to make reference to a specific object rather than a class or category, are a point of contact between the language and the local, concrete reality of the world. Culturally specific systems of language and meaning constitute, in a broad sense, the differences among societies, while concrete, physical, and biological reality represents a starting point of commonality from which some degree of commensurability is attainable. Perhaps this is an underlying basis for the idea that "the understanding of names and naming [can provide] the most valuable key to the elucidation of ... social systems" ...
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