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dc.contributor.authorKotilainen, Sofia
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-06T06:21:24Z
dc.date.available2013-02-06T06:21:24Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationKotilainen, S. (2012). An inherited name as the foundation of a person's identity : How the memory of a dead person lived on in the names of his or her descendants. <i>Thanatos</i>, <i>1</i>(1), 1-24. <a href="https://journal.fi/thanatos/article/view/131908" target="_blank">https://journal.fi/thanatos/article/view/131908</a>
dc.identifier.otherCONVID_21437900
dc.identifier.otherTUTKAID_50604
dc.identifier.urihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/40878
dc.description.abstractA personal name has always played a central role in the formation of an individual’s identity. In addition to the surname, the forename also defined his or her place within the family community, which for most people was the most important target in the identification process, especially in the early modern period. The identities of the persons in rural families were also to a great extent based on personal names inherited from forebears and the images thus created. In this article, I examine to what extent the naming practices of the population in the hinterland Finnish countryside and the identities created by them were connected with ancestors. The study spans a quite long period, from the eighteenth right up to the mid-twentieth century. The inherited names that were given to children symbolized the family connection between the deceased and later generations. For example, the choice of a name in an emergency baptism was affected by the parents’ fear that their baby might perish. And if an older child of the family died, it was possible to give a later one an inherited name that had been vacated in the family with the passing away of the deceased child. These namesake names carried the memory of both the ancestor and the child who had perished at an early age. The deceased could in this way continue their lives symbolically in the forenames of later born namesakes.en
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSuomalaisen kuolemantutkimuksen seura
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThanatos
dc.relation.urihttps://journal.fi/thanatos/article/view/131908
dc.subject.otherKeski-Suomi
dc.subject.otherhätäkasteet
dc.subject.otherkaimat
dc.subject.otherperintönimet
dc.subject.otherCentral Finland
dc.subject.otheremergency baptisms
dc.subject.otheridentities
dc.subject.otherfamily networks
dc.subject.otherforenames
dc.subject.otherinherited names
dc.subject.othernamesakes
dc.subject.othernaming practices
dc.titleAn inherited name as the foundation of a person's identity : How the memory of a dead person lived on in the names of his or her descendants
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:jyu-201302061175
dc.contributor.laitosHistorian ja etnologian laitosfi
dc.contributor.laitosDepartment of History and Ethnologyen
dc.contributor.oppiaineSuomen historiafi
dc.contributor.oppiaineFinnish Historyen
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle
dc.date.updated2013-02-06T04:30:16Z
dc.type.coarhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1
dc.description.reviewstatuspeerReviewed
dc.format.pagerange1-24
dc.relation.issn2242-6280
dc.relation.numberinseries1
dc.relation.volume1
dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
dc.rights.copyright© Finnish Death Studies Association. Published in this repository with the kind permission of the publisher.
dc.rights.accesslevelopenAccessfi
dc.subject.ysoidentiteetti
dc.subject.ysosymboliikka
dc.subject.ysokäytäntö
dc.subject.ysosukulaisuus
dc.subject.ysonimistöntutkimus
dc.subject.ysoetunimet
dc.subject.ysonimenanto
dc.subject.ysokuolleet
dc.subject.ysohenkilönnimet
dc.subject.ysoperinne
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