Naming Others: Translation and Subject Constitution in the Central Highlands of Angola (1926–1961)

• Published in: Comparative studies in society and history Vol. 64; no. 2; pp. 363 - 393
• Main Author: Dulley, Iracema
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, USA Cambridge University Press 01.04.2022
• Subjects: Argumentation; Black white relations; Classification; Colonialism; Constitutions; Deconstruction; Ethnicity; Ethnography; Fixation; Fractures; Grammatical aspect; Intentional action; Language; Names; Names, Narratives, and Hidden Transcripts; Naming; Nominalism; Performativity; Portuguese language; Positioning; Signifiant and signifie; Social categories; Sociolinguistics; Structuralism; Transformation; Translation; Angola; colonialism; race; ethnicity; naming; translation; iteration; ethnographic theorization; displacement; resistance; subject constitution

This paper proposes an ethnographic theorization of the relationship between naming, translation, and subject constitution via the analysis of forms of interpellation in colonial Angola. It engages critically with systemic/structural renderings of colonial society that portray social positions as op...