Given Names and Lived Closeness

IF 1 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Social Analysis Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI:10.3167/sa.2021.650404

Ferenc Dávid Markó

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Abstract

Immediately after the independence of South Sudan in 2011, a nationality law was passed that defined citizenship by membership to clearly defined and bounded ethnic groups. To acquire citizenship, the testimony of a ‘next of kin’, taken to be an ‘older blood relative from the father’s line’, was supposed to verify ethnicity and, thus, belonging to the new nation. Citizenship offices were tasked with checking names and assessing life histories. In so doing, they combined the logic of patrilineal names with estimations of lived closeness, creating a complex system of measuring kinship. Based on colonial legacies and methods acquired during the Sudanese civil war, kinship measurements produced new relations, but also fueled ethnic tensions and cemented social inequalities.

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名字和生活的亲密

2011年南苏丹独立后，立即通过了国籍法，明确界定了公民身份，即属于明确界定和有界限的民族群体。为了获得公民身份，“近亲”的证词，被认为是“来自父亲家族的年长血亲”，应该核实种族，从而属于新国家。公民办公室的任务是核查姓名和评估生活史。在这样做的过程中，他们将父系姓氏的逻辑与生活亲密度的估计结合起来，创造了一个衡量亲属关系的复杂系统。基于殖民遗产和苏丹内战期间获得的方法，亲属关系产生了新的关系，但也加剧了种族紧张局势，巩固了社会不平等。

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Social Analysis ANTHROPOLOGY-

CiteScore

2.20

自引率

7.10%

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审稿时长

16 weeks

期刊介绍： Social Analysis is an international peer-reviewed journal devoted to exploring the analytical potentials of anthropological research. It encourages contributions grounded in original empirical research that critically probe established paradigms of social and cultural analysis. The journal expresses the best that anthropology has to offer by exploring in original ways the relationship between ethnographic materials and theoretical insight. By forging creative and critical engagements with cultural, political, and social processes, it also opens new avenues of communication between anthropology and the humanities as well as other social sciences. The journal publishes four issues per year, including regular Special Issues on particular themes. The Editors welcome individual articles that focus on diverse topics and regions, reflect varied theoretical approaches and methods, and aim to appeal widely within anthropology and beyond. Proposals for Special Issues are selected by the Editorial Board through an annual competitive call.