Ethnicity and Matriarchal Protest: A Case of Dialoguing Shona Personal Names

Abstract This paper examines the role of Zimbabwean (Shona) women in the naming of children in the patriarchal Shona society. The corpus of two thousand Shona personal/given names under review was gathered from Zimbabwe's seven predominantly Shona-speaking provinces. The discussion closely exam...

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Main Author: Livingstone Makondo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 2008-03-01
Series:Names
Online Access:http://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/view/1824