Search results for "nimenanto"
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An inherited name as the foundation of a person's identity: How the memory of a dead person lived on in the names of his or her descendants
2012
A personal name has always played a central role in the formation of an individual’s identity. In addition to the surname, the forename also defined his or her place within the family community, which for most people was the most important target in the identification process, especially in the early modern period. The identities of the persons in rural families were also to a great extent based on personal names inherited from forebears and the images thus created. In this article, I examine to what extent the naming practices of the population in the hinterland Finnish countryside and the identities created by them were connected with ancestors. The study spans a quite long period, from t…
Using the concept of onomastic literacy as an analytical tool : A methodological examination of the names of European royal families
2022
Onomastic literacy (the skills needed to interpret the cultural and social phenomena and meanings related to name-giving) are part of a person’s cultural capital. I use this concept, which I have developed, to study personal names in family networks and in royal families in particular. This research combines the approaches and methodologies of collective biography, microhistory and the history of mentalities. The concept of onomastic literacy helps us to contextualize the lives of the research objects more closely as part of the cultures and local communities of their times, thereby revealing the deep-rooted motives behind name choices and the slow change in mentalities affecting naming. pe…
Förtroende och andra former av symboliskt kapital i fadderskapsstrategier
2012
Living names, naming lives : on the naming practices of Germans living in Finland - a socio-onomastic study
2011
Tämän pro gradu -työn päätavoitteena on tutkia Suomessa asuvien saksalaisten etunimivalintaa. Tutkimusaihetta ei ole tutkittu toistaiseksi. Tutkimukseni tavoitteena oli vanhempien etunimimotiivien ja Suomen nimiperinteiden selvittäminen. Samalla tutkittiin myös monikulttuurista elämää toisessa maassa, sekä sen mahdollisia vaikutuksia lapsen etniseen identiteettiin. Teoreettinen tausta sisältää suomen ja saksan nimitutkijoiden töitä. Sen lisäksi hyödynnettiin monikulttuurisen nimeämisen sekä nimimuotojen tutkimusta. Pro gradu -työni kuuluu laadulliseen tutkimusperinteeseen. Otos koostui kahdestatoista perheestä, joista puolessa oli yksi saksalainen ja yksi suomalainen vanhempi. Loput vanhemm…