Oceania

OCEANIA -AUSTRALASIA -AUSTRALIA

Allen, K. (1990). Family names in Australia & New Zealand. Kenthurst, New South Wales: Kangaroo Press.

Chevalier, S. (2001). What’s in a Name: Family Naming Practices. Australian Style, 9(1), 1-2.

Chevalier, S. (2004). Nicknames in Australia. Bulletin Suisse De Linguistique Appliquée, 125-137.

Chevalier, S. (2006). Ava to Zac : a sociolinguistic study of given names and nicknames in Australia (Schweizer anglistische Arbeiten No. 131). Tübingen : Francke.
Notes: Originally presented as the author’s thesis (doctoral)–Universität, Zürich, 2004.

Dynes, C. (1984). The complete Australian and New Zealand book of names. North Ryde, NSW, Australia: Angus & Robertson Publishers.

OCEANIA -AUSTRALASIA -AUSTRALIA ~1~ANCILLARY~ GENETICS

Kosten, M., Williams, J., & Mitchell, R. J. (1983). Historical Population-Structure Of 2 Tasmanian Communities Using Surname Analyses. Journal of Biosocial Science, 15(3), 367-376.

OCEANIA -AUSTRALASIA -AUSTRALIA [ABORIGINAL]

Dousset, L. (1997). Naming and personal names of Ngaatjatjarra-speaking people, Western Desert: Some questions related to research. Australian Aboriginal Studies: Journal of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, (2), 50-.

Nicholls, C. (1995). Warlpiri nicknaming: a personal memoir. International Journal of the Sociology of Language , 113, 137-146.

Thomson, D. F. (1946). Names and Naming in the Wik Monkan Tribe . The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 76(2), 157-168.

Triffitt, G. (2007). Australian Aboriginal names. Indexer.
Notes: Centrepiece 2 : Indexing personal names 2

OCEANIA -AUSTRALASIA -AUSTRALIA (ASIA)

Jain, P. (2006). What’s in a name. Eye on Asia.
Abstract: ed lawson "There has been an upsurge of students from Asian countries enrolling in institutions of higher education in Australia. It is striking that while students from Mainland China adopt English given names, those from India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Korea, and Japan do not."

OCEANIA -AUSTRALASIA -AUSTRALIA [GERMAN]

Clyne, M. (1972). German surname changes in Victoria, Australia 1937-39: a study in integration. Linguistics : an International Review, (87), 37-46.
Abstract: Lawson1: "a systematic study of 129 surname changes"

OCEANIA -AUSTRALASIA -AUSTRALIA [UKRAINIAN]

Radion, S. (1981). Dictionary of Ukrainian surnames in Australia. Melbourne: Academia Scientiarum Mohylo-Mazepiana Ukrainensis.

OCEANIA -AUSTRALASIA -NEW ZEALAND

Allen, K. (1990). Family names in Australia & New Zealand. Kenthurst, New South Wales: Kangaroo Press.

Dynes, C. (1984). The complete Australian and New Zealand book of names. North Ryde, NSW, Australia: Angus & Robertson Publishers.

Scott, F. S. (1986). Personal names of students and other Auckland onomastics. Auckland: [University of Auckland].
Abstract: Copy of an article originally published in the periodical of the New Zealand Linguistic Society

OCEANIA -AUSTRALASIA -NEW ZEALAND [MAORI]

Best, E. (1902). Maori nomenclature : Notes on the Consanguineous, Affinitative, Personal, Tribal, Topographical, Floral and Ornithological Nomenclature of the Maori Race of New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Insitute of GB & Ireland, 32, 182-201.

Jonassen, J. (2003). A book of Cook Islands Maori names, ingoa . Suva, Fiji : Institute of Pacific Studies, USP.
Notes: Refs, 159p
Abstract: Rarotongan language — Etymology — Names
"Names play a major role in the traditional life of the Maori people of the Cook Islands. It has a dynamic, ever-present symbolism that constantly reminds those who are living of responsibilities to their ancestors and descendants. It has emotional, physical and spiritual connotations. Names create a link to ancestors, friends, family members, titles, and land. This study compiles selected common names that are used primarily in Rarotonga and gives their meaning and significance." publisher synopsis

OCEANIA -MELANESIA -PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Bateson, G. (1934). Personal Names Among the Latmul Tribe (Sepik River) . Man , 34, 109-110.

Franklin, K. J. (1967). Names and aliases in Kewa. Journal of the Polynesian Society, 76, 76-81.

Glasse, R. M. (1987). Huli names and naming. Ethnology, 26, 201-208.

Harrison, S. (1990). Stealing people’s names : history and politics in a Sepik River cosmology. Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press.

Hirsch, E. (1995). Local persons, metropolitan names: contending forms of simultaneity among the Fuyuge, Papua New Guinea. in: R. J. Foster Nation making: Emergent identities of Post-Colonial Melanesia (pp. 185-206). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Hooley, B. A. (1972). The Buang naming system. Journal of the Polynesian Society, 81, 500-506.

Kurita, H. Place and personal names as markers of history : an approach to the historical consciousness of the Fasu, Papua New Guinea .

Stasch, R. (2002). Joking Avoidance: A Korowai Pragmatics of Being Two . American Ethnologist, 29(2), 335-365.
Abstract: publisher’s abstract "Korowai of New Guinea participate in person-reference partnerships in which two people call each other by a term recalling some past event of mutual and mildly transgressive bodily identification. This genre of person reference is hybrid between personal names and kinterms and between joking and avoidance….."

OCEANIA -MELANESIA -SOLOMON ISLANDS

Kuschel, R. ([1981?]). Cultural reflections in Bellonese personal names .
Notes: "Paper prepared for the ASAO meetings symposium on Names and Naming, Febr. 1981, San Diego."
Abstract: Solomon Islands

OCEANIA -MICRONESIA

De Young, J. (1958). The use of names by Micronesians (Anthropological Working Papers No. 3). Guam, M.I.: Office of the Staff Anthropologist, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
Notes: 124p
Abstract: covers Yap, Palau, Ponape, Truk, Marshall Islands, and the Marianas

OCEANIA -MICRONESIA -GILBERT ISLANDS

Lambert, B. The uses of kinship terms and personal names in the Gilbert Islands. Symposium on Kinship Terminology in Oceania; Seattle meeting of American Anthropological Association.
Notes: 16p
Abstract: Kiribati.

OCEANIA -MICRONESIA -GUAM

Lorenz, B. E. (1996). The Pacific islander’s book of names : a dictionary of modern and ancient first names used by people from Guam and other Pacific Islands. Mangilao, Guam: Three Furies Press.

OCEANIA -MICRONESIA -MARSHALL ISLANDS

Carucci, L. M. (1984). Significance of change or change of significance: a consideration of Marshallese personal names. Ethnology, 23(2), 143-155.

OCEANIA -MICRONESIA -YAP

Kirkpatrick, J. (1973). Personal names on Yap . Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Chicago.
Notes: Thesis (M.A.)

OCEANIA -POLYNESIA -COOK ISLANDS

Hecht, J. A. (1981). An exploration of personal names in Pukapuka .
Notes: "paper presented to the Symposium on Personal Names and Naming Practices at the annual meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, February 25-March 1, 1981, San Diego."
Abstract: Cook Islands

OCEANIA -POLYNESIA -EASTER ISLAND

González-Martín, A., García-Moro, C., Hernández, M., & Moral, P. (2006). Inbreeding and surnames: a projection into Easter Island’s past. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 129(3), 435-45.

OCEANIA -POLYNESIA -HAWAII

Hawaiian names. ([2004]). [Honolulu]: Hawai?i & Pacific Section, Hawai?i State Library, Hawai?i State Public Library System.
Notes: 1 folded sheet ([4] p.)

Hawaiian personal names. (19??). [Honolulu] .

Ka‘ano‘i, P., & Lokomaika‘i Snakenberg, R. (1988). The Hawaiian Name Book. Honolulu: Bess Press.

Lydgate, J. M. (1926). The Romance of Hawaiian Personal Names. Paradise of the Pacific.

Reinecke, J. E. (1940). Personal names in Hawaii. American Speech, 15(4), [345]-352 p.

Root, E. M. (1987). Hawaiian Names-English Names . Booklines Hawaii Ltd .
Abstract: "The first half is a list of Hawaii’an names and their definitions. The second half is a list of Anglo names and their Hawaii’an equivalent"

OCEANIA -POLYNESIA -TONGA

Gifford, E. W. (1985). Tongan society. Millwood, N.Y: Kraus Reprint.

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