Name Changes in South Africa: An Indigenous Flavour

Chauke, M.T.

doi:10.1080/09720073.2015.11891662

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“…In the context of selections of babies' names in Arab, parents or close relatives select the name which reflects the circumstances of choosing that name (Bean, 1980). Chauke (2015) studied the personal names based on qualitative methods in Xitsonga language of Vatsonga in South Arica. According to him the personal names of Vatsonga just do not tag the people but also provide social importance and indicate cultural and political background at the time of birth of a baby.…”

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A Sociolinguistic Study of Personal Names in Balochi Culture

Bakhsh

2024

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This paper focuses on the personal names of Balochi culture and regards naming practices as an important aspect of the Baloch culture. Personal names are studied in this paper within the perspective of linguistics anthropology. In this paper, the focus of the study is limited to the names of people living in district Kech of Balochistan province. It is hypothesized that Personal names of Balochi culture are not arbitrary labels, but they have sociocultural tags, functions, and meanings. The date to complete requirement of the objectives have been collected through the voter list and some personal names were obtained from the primary and secondary schools of different cities of district Kech. The qualitative method has been used for analyzing the concerned data. They borrow personal names from different cultures due to religious, political, and ideological reasons however, they have always clothed them in the garments of their national ideology. On this purpose the paper discusses the typology of Balochi names including the names taken from the names of days and months, plants and tree, and circumstantial names. It also discusses about compounding naming practices of Balochi culture which are derived from the combination of two single units of words in Balochi language. The Balochi personal names through classifications and categorization show that the choices of Balochi personal names are based on social and cultural considerations. It was observed in the typology of personal names in Balochi culture which shows that how social belief and cultural practices influence the choices or selections of personal names.

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A Sociolinguistic Study of Personal Names in Balochi Culture

Bakhsh

2024

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“…The naming of sites, institutions and even residential streets after these early colonists, many of whom held abhorrent views about non-Whites and women, remains to this day (Belshaw, 2005; Karaitiana, 2016; Kightley, 2016; King, 2003, p. 172; Phillip, 2014; Tuckey, 2016). The practice of examining the colonial foundations of significant sites and “re-claiming” the original names (and the resistance from some to those efforts) is a growing area of interest all over the globe (Acosta, 2015; Belshaw, 2005; Brattland & Nilsen, 2011; Chauke, 2015; Coughlan, 2015; Sparrow, 2015; Television New Zealand, 2015).…”

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Conceptualising historical privilege: the flip side of historical trauma, a brief examination

Borell

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McCreanor

2017

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

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Historical trauma is an important and growing area of research that provides crucial insights into the antecedents of current-day inequities in health and social wellbeing experienced by Indigenous people in colonial settler societies. What is not so readily examined is the flip side of historical trauma experienced by settlers and their descendants, what might be termed “historical privilege”. These historic acts of privilege for settlers, particularly those emigrating from Britain, provide the antecedents for the current-day realities for their descendants and the structural, institutional and interpersonal levels of advantage that are also a key feature of inequities between Indigenous and settler. This article theorises an explicit link between historical trauma and historical privilege and explores how the latter may be examined with particular reference to Aotearoa New Zealand. Three core elements of historical trauma are posited as a useful framework to apply to historical privilege.

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