4.0737 Death and Loss of Name (3/45)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 21 Nov 90 23:18:18 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0737. Wednesday, 21 Nov 1990.
(1) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 90 10:10:14 EST (13 lines)
From: TEBRAKE@MAINE (William H. TeBrake)
Subject: Death and Loss of Name
(2) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 90 20:31 EST (10 lines)
From: NMILLER@trincc
Subject: Fooling the angel of death
(3) Date: Sat, 17 Nov 90 01:38 EST (22 lines)
From: <BBOARD@VUVAXCOM>
Subject: death and loss of name..a comment
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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 90 10:10:14 EST
From: TEBRAKE@MAINE (William H. TeBrake)
Subject: Death and Loss of Name
Here is another twist to the Death and Loss of Name topic: Suzanne
Lebsock, in her excellent _Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture
in a Southern Town, 1784-1860_ (New York: Norton, 1984), suggests that
that marriage amounted to "civil death" in this Virginia town until well
into the nineteenth century because the English Common Law tradition
made them subject to their husbands in almost everything.
At the same time they lost their surnames.
Bill TeBrake
History, University of Maine
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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 90 20:31 EST
From: NMILLER@trincc
Subject: Fooling the angel of death
Judith Schrier's shrewd notion as to the beliefs underlying the
renaming of a sick person is borne out, I think, by the popularity
of "Alter" (old one), a name which surely doesn't refresh the invalid
but deceives, one hopes, the malach hamoves.
NM
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Date: Sat, 17 Nov 90 01:38 EST
From: <BBOARD@VUVAXCOM>
Subject: death and loss of name..a comment
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To.................> HUMANIST@BROWNVM
Please reply to....> 140683656@VUVAXCOM.BITNET
Date of posting....> November 16th, 1990
Subject.....> death and loss of name..a comment
I know for a fact that there is a tribe, either the Yaqui or the
Yanomamo, who believe that it is a great mistake to use a persons name
after their death. It is also true, however, that they *do* re-use the
name later if a child is born who reminds them of (or who they believe
is the spirit of) the dead. This is the only exception
J.R.
Note: I think i am way out of my league here so excuse me if i have
interrupted rudely...im merely an engineering major with a cultural
anthropology class.