Open Access"Thrown out", Peter or Chaim, and Other Difficulties: on the Naming Among Mountain Jews (Based on Field Materials 2018–2019)
Author(s) -
Svetlana Pogodina
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
judaic-slavic journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2658-3364
DOI - 10.31168/2658-3364.2020.2.13
Subject(s) - field (mathematics) , history , perception , sociology , classics , philosophy , epistemology , mathematics , pure mathematics
In the article contemporary practices of namegiving by Mountain Jew of Dagestan are analyzed. As a material interviews collected during field work in Dagestan in 2018-2019 were taken. Collected material is divided into blocks, concerning different aspects of namegiving practices: such as apotropaic names, transformation of the name or name changing, rules of name choosing and giving. In the article changes of namegiving tradition by Mountain Jews are highlighting, as well as formation of the new norms and perceptions of the namegiving.