Family Names: Origins, History, Anthropology and Sociology

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Edited by Harry Parkin and Richard Coates

October 2024

206 pages

ISBN978-3-7258-2232-4 (Hardback)

ISBN978-3-7258-2231-7 (PDF)

https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-7258-2231-7

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Summary

The topics and methods covered by the papers in this Special Issue reflect the unique interdisciplinarity of the study of family names and names in general. It includes papers related to name origins, linguistic development, distribution, heredity, and sociocultural factors, showing how vibrant and varied the field has become. When considered together, and in the context of previous research on names, the papers in this Special Issue show that the study of family names continues to develop in new and interesting ways, and that they can be acknowledged as a significant site of research from a wide range of perspectives.

Keywords

Jewish surnames; Georgia; history of Georgian Jews; etymology of surnames; onomastics; surnames; Jews; Bohemia and Moravia; Iceland; surnames; patronymics; name law; anthroponomastics; feminine surnames; family names; marital status; Lithuanian; Czech; Slovak; Polish; surnames; adoption; name stories; family belonging; identities; family names; surnames; onomastics; name law; name change; slavery; politics; The Netherlands; Suriname; Dutch Antilles; surname; Armenian; France; 19th–20th century; marital surname change; brides-to-be; income; children of marriage; bilateral descent reckoning; Canada; family name; Vietnamese personal name; Kinh people; Nguyễn surname; name model; Akan naming; anthroponym; family name; appellation; circumstantial name; day-name;