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In Linguistic Mysteries of Ethnonyms in Inner Asia, Penglin Wang focuses on semantics as a central theme in onomastics and strives to unravel the origin and meaning of a series of influential ethnonyms such as Xianbei, Rouran, Tabγač, Tatar, Shiwei, Mongol, Merkid, Nüzhen, Jušen, and Nikan. Since much of modern research has dealt with issues of Inner Asian ethnonyms within a regional framework, Wang’s exploration of the early Indo-European and Altaic influence on the ethnonymic designations of Mongol-Tungusic and Turkic groups opens up a new horizon for transcontinental approaches, which represent an important thrust in Inner Asian and Eurasian studies. Wang has based this comprehensive study on textual, cross-linguistic, and patterned analysis of the ethnonyms found primarily in ancient Chinese sources.

On the surface, naming is simply a way to classify people and their environments. The premise of this study is that it is much more — a form of social control, a political activity, a key to identity maintenance and transformation. Governments legislate and regulate naming; people fight to take, keep, or change their names. A name change can indicate subjugation or liberation, depending on the circumstances. But it always signifies a change in power relations. Since the late 1970s, the author has looked at naming and renaming, cross-culturally and internationally, with particular attention to the effects of colonisation and liberation. The experience of Inuit in Canada is an example of both. Colonisation is only part of the Nunavut experience. Contrary to the dire predictions of cultural genocide theorists, Inuit culture — particularly traditional naming — has remained extremely strong, and is in the midst of a renaissance. Here is a ground-breaking study by the founder of the discipline of political onomastics.

Si on vous demande d'où vient le mot « mansarde », vous répondrez à coup sûr de Mansart. Tout comme la poubelle rappelle le nom d'un préfet de police parisien et guillotine, celui d'un médecin qui préconisa cet instrument par… humanité.C'est une forme de gloire que de passer à la postérité en léguant son nom à une chose comme la mousseline (originaire de Mossoul, en Irak), à un animal comme l'angora (qui nous vient d'Ankara), à un trait de caractère comme tartuf(f)e ou à un terme sportif comme le derby.En cherchant tous azimuts, on s'aperçoit qu'il y a des centaines de mots qui dérivent de noms propres et ce, dans tous les domaines.Nous en avons recensé 2500 dans cet ouvrage qui, pourtant, ne prétend pas à l'exhaustivité ! Vous n'emploierez plus les termes ampères, joules, watts et autres coulombs sans songer que ces appellations étranges rappellent les noms de savants et, lorsque vous parcourrez les allées d'un jardin, vous songerez aux grands botanistes qui ont donné leur nom au bégonia, camélia, fuchsia, etc.L'ensemble est complété par des tableaux qui regroupent quelques-uns de ces mots par affinité : noms de monnaies, de chiens, de chevaux ou de chats, de vins ou de fromages qui, tous, ont pour origine un nom propre.Á propos de l'auteur :En une quarantaine de livres, Georges Lebouc a surtout abordé les langues qu'il a enseignées comme l'italien ou l'espagnol ou qu'il a sucées avec le lait maternel comme le bruxellois sans oublier le français, langue de ses ancêtres.Depuis quelques années, il se consacre surtout à l'histoire anecdotique de Bruxelles, sa ville natale, mais revient à la linguistique avec un ouvrage sur les noms propres devenus communs.

On the surface, naming is simply a way to classify people and their environments. The premise of this study is that it is much more - a form of social control, a political activity, a key to identity maintenance and transformation. Governments legislate and regulate naming; people fight to take, keep, or change their names. A name change can indicate subjugation or liberation, depending on the circumstances. But it always signifies a change in power relations. Since the late 1970s, the author has looked at naming and renaming, cross-culturally and internationally, with particular attention to the effects of colonisation and liberation. The experience of Inuit in Canada is an example of both. Colonisation is only part of the Nunavut experience. Contrary to the dire predictions of cultural genocide theorists, Inuit culture - particularly traditional naming - has remained extremely strong, and is in the midst of a renaissance. Here is a ground-breaking study by the founder of the discipline of political onomastics.

Filmed before the Georgia shootings, writer Te-Ping Chen shares with us her \"Humble Opinion\" that people with ethnic names must embrace them instead of shying away. Chen, who says she was given a \"boy's name\" at birth, looks back on how it crafted her life. It's a reflection on heritage and how, in the melting pot of America, a name can become a concrete link to family traditions.

Indonesia, the largest country in Southeast Asia, has as its national motto 'Unity in Diversity.' In 2010, Indonesia stood as the world's fourth most populous country after China, India and the United States, with 237.6 million people. This archipelagic country contributed 3.5 per cent to the world's population in the same year. The country's demographic and political transitions have resulted in an emerging need to better understand the ethnic composition of Indonesia. This book aims to contribute to that need. It is a demographic study on ethnicity, mostly relying on the tabulation provided by the BPS (Badan Pusat Statistik; Statistics-Indonesia) based on the complete data set of the 2010 population census. The information on ethnicity was collected for 236,728,379 individuals, a huge data set. The book has four objectives: To produce a new comprehensive classification of ethnic groups to better capture the rich diversity of ethnicity in Indonesia; to report on the ethnic composition in Indonesia and in each of the thirty three provinces using the new classification; to evaluate the dynamics of the fifteen largest ethnic groups in Indonesia during 2000–2010; and to examine the religions and languages of each of the fifteen largest ethnic groups.

Prewitt recalls how the US ended up with such a complicated set of racial and ethnic categories. The public face of America's official racial classification is its census, and has been so since the first decennial enumeration in 1790. The initial classification was implicit in two civil status distinctions: free or slave, taxed or untaxed. Applying these distinctions in the census generated a count of three ancestry groups, such as European, African, and untaxed Native American, which set the foundation for all racial classifications to come.

“I never ate Kellogg’s Frosted Sugar Stars (cereal mascot character: Hillbilly Goat), and I never saw a single episode of The Beverly Hillbillies or Hee Haw , because the nearby ridges kept our flimsy rooftop T V antenna from pulling in CBS shows.”