Abstract

CABRAL, João de Pina. Lusophone anthroponymy recurrences . Etnográfica [online]. 2008, vol.12, n.1, pp.237-262. ISSN 0873-6561.

This essay approaches the Lusophone tradition in personal naming as a kind of sociocultural regionality, allowing for subsequent contrastive comparison.  Ever since the changes that took place at the onset of the Modern Era, Lusophone names can be seen to promote the person as possessing a “natural” existence when faced with the primary instances of domination which relate with it.  Three assymetric bynomials structure the field: the opposition between first name and surname, presents the person as unitary when faced with the family which, thus, becomes a collective phenomenon; the opposition between official name versus other names places the person as the building block of citizenship and spirituality (the soul); the opposition masculine/feminine creates a process of encompassment of the later by the former.

Keywords : lusophone; personal names; controlled comparison; domination.

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