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Ancestors and relatives : genealogy, identity, and community / Eviatar Zerubavel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zerubavel, Eviatar.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Genealogy--Social aspects.
- Genealogy.
- Genealogy--Psychological aspects.
- Genealogy--Political aspects.
- Families.
- Kinship.
- Heredity.
- Psychological aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780199773954
- 0199773955
- OCLC:
- 702941698
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