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Dictionnaire anecdotique des surnoms et des sobriquets
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ISBN: 2866762428 9782866762421 Year: 1986 Publisher: Paris: MA éditions,


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Van Apekop tot Zielepoot : hoe mensen elkaar typeren
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ISBN: 902367779X 9789023677796 Year: 1985 Publisher: 's-Gravenhage : Nijgh en Van Ditmar,


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Renoms, motius, malnoms i noms de casa
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ISBN: 8473040635 9788473040631 Year: 1981 Volume: 4 Publisher: Barcelona: Millà,


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Studier över nordsvenska ortsboöknamn
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ISBN: 918637205X Year: 1985 Publisher: Umeå Dialekt-, ortnamns- och folkminnesarkivet


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Early east-Anglian nicknames : Bahuvrihi names.
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ISBN: 9140037983 Year: 1975 Publisher: Lund Gleerup

Handbook of pseudonyms and personal nicknames
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ISBN: 0810808072 0810804603 0810815397 9780810804609 9780810808072 9780810815391 Year: 1982 Publisher: Metuchen (N.J.): Scarecrow press,


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Inoffizielle Personennamen: Bildung, Bedeutung und Funktion
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ISSN: 03446778 ISBN: 3484311274 3111377059 9783484311275 Year: 1992 Volume: 127 Publisher: Tübingen: Niemeyer,


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Naming colonialism : history and collective memory in the Congo, 1870-1960
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ISBN: 9780299233648 0299233642 9780299233631 0299233634 1282424203 9786612424205 9781282424203 6612424206 Year: 2009 Publisher: Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin Press,

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Abstract

What's in a name? As Osumaka Likaka argues in this illuminating study, the names that Congolese villagers gave to European colonizers reveal much about how Africans experienced and reacted to colonialism. The arrival of explorers, missionaries, administrators, and company agents allowed Africans to observe Westerners' physical appearances, behavior, and cultural practices at close range--often resulting in subtle yet trenchant critiques. By naming Europeans, Africans turned a universal practice into a local mnemonic system, recording and preserving the village's understanding of colonialism in the form of pithy verbal expressions that were easy to remember and transmit across localities, regions, and generations.

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Kongo language --- Nicknames --- Kongo (Langue) --- Sobriquets --- Epithets. --- History. --- Epithètes --- Histoire --- Congo (Brazzaville) --- Congo (Democratic Republic) --- Congo --- Congo (République démocratique) --- Colonization. --- Colonisation --- History & Archaeology --- Regions & Countries - Africa --- Epithets --- History --- Congo (Kinshasa) --- 967.5.03 --- 967.5.03 Geschiedenis van Zaïre (Kongo): Koloniale periode; Belgisch Kongo--(1884-1960) --- Geschiedenis van Zaïre (Kongo): Koloniale periode; Belgisch Kongo--(1884-1960) --- Congo belge --- --Congo Brazzaville --- --Épithète --- --Surnom --- --Histoire --- --Mémoire collective --- --Epithets --- Colonization --- Epithètes --- Congo (République démocratique) --- Soubriquets --- Congo language --- Fiote language --- Kikongo language --- Congo (Leopoldville) --- République du Congo (Leopoldville) --- Republic of the Congo (Leopoldville) --- Republic of Congo (Leopoldville) --- République démocratique du Congo --- Democratic Republic of the Congo --- Demokraticheskai︠a︡ Respublika Kongo --- Kongo --- RDC (République démocratique du Congo) --- DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo) --- DRK (Demokraticheskai︠a︡ Respublika Kongo) --- Democratic Republic of Congo --- DR Congo --- RD Congo --- République populaire du Congo --- Kongo (Brazzaville) --- République du Congo (Brazzaville) --- Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) --- Republic of Congo (Brazzaville) --- Congo (People's Republic) --- Ludowa Republika Konga --- Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika Kongo --- R.P.C. (République populaire du Congo) --- RPC --- People's Republic of the Congo --- Congo Republic (Brazzaville) --- Names, Personal --- Bantu languages --- Belgian Congo --- Zaire --- Middle Congo --- Repubilika ya Kôngo --- Republíki ya Kongó --- West Congo --- ROC (Republic of Congo) --- Congo DR --- R.D. Congo --- History of Africa --- History of Congo --- anno 1800-1999 --- Congo-Brazzaville --- Kongo language - Epithets --- Nicknames - Congo (Brazzaville) - History --- Nicknames - Congo (Kinshasa) - History --- Épithète --- Surnom --- Mémoire collective --- Congo Brazzaville --- Congo (Brazzaville) - Colonization --- Congo (Kinshasa) - Colonization

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