Ancestors and Relatives : Genealogy, Identity, and Community

Ancestors and Relatives : Genealogy, Identity, and Community / Eviatar Zerubavel.

Genealogy has long been one of humanity's greatest obsessions. But with the rise of genetics, and increasing media attention to it through programs like Who Do You Think You Are? and Faces of America, we are now told that genetic markers can definitively tell us who we are and where we came fro...

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Main Author: Zerubavel, Eviatar
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
Genealogy > Social aspects.
Genealogy > Psychological aspects.
Genealogy > Political aspects.
Families.
Kinship.
Heredity.
Nuclear families.
kinship.
REFERENCE > Genealogy & Heraldry.
Nuclear families
Families
Genealogy > Social aspects
Heredity
Kinship
Genealogia.
Família.
Parentiu.
Herència (Biologia)
Llibres electrònics.
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Table of Contents:
  • The genealogical imagination
  • Ancestry and descent
  • Lineage
  • Pedigree
  • Origins
  • Co-descent
  • Kinship
  • Community and identity
  • Nature and culture
  • Blood
  • Nature or culture?
  • The rules of genealogical lineation
  • The rules of genealogical delineation
  • The politics of descent
  • Stretching
  • Cutting and pasting
  • Clipping
  • Braiding
  • Lumping
  • Marginalizing
  • Splitting
  • Pruning
  • The genealogy of the future
  • Genealogical engineering
  • Integration
  • Segregation
  • Extinction
  • The future of genealogy.

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