Name taboos and rigid performativity

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 141-164

  Fleming, Luke ^a  

^a ECKERD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Avoidance registers; Performativity; Personal names; Verbal taboo

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951902195     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: 15341518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/anq.2011.0010     Document Type: Article

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