Abstract

The rich fabric of place names knitting together the Americas weaves into a complex intercultural network of naming practices that span thousands of years as well as the globe. Indigenous, European, and settler communities each bestowed names upon places near and far whose meanings describe the place, its resources, or one’s experiences there. Names define the people who occupy a place. They commemorate an event or person in ways that evidence the gendered and racialized nature of place naming in the Americas, especially after 1492, through a predominately masculine lens. This study considers how women and people of color are represented in place names and the impacts of masculinist approaches to place nomenclature while contrasting Indigenous approaches to toponymy and the European reception of Indigenous place names in the Americas, with a focus on North America.

摘要

丰富的地名结构将美洲编织在一起，编织成一个复杂的跨文化的命名惯例网络，跨越数千年，遍及全球。土著，欧洲和定居者社区分别在远方和远方的地方授予名称，这些意思描述了该地点，其资源或一个人的经历。名称定义了占据一个地方的人。他们通过以男性为主的镜头来纪念事件或人物，以证明美洲地名的性别和种族特征，尤其是在1492年之后。这项研究考虑了在地名中代表妇女和有色人种的方式，以及男子气概的地名命名方法的影响，同时对比了土著人对地名的命名方法和欧洲在美洲对土著人地名的接受，