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Book

Ancestors and relatives : genealogy, identity, and community

Call Number

  • 929.1 Z588 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Physical Description

xii, 226 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

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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