Ancestors and relatives : genealogy, identity, and community / / Eviatar Zerubavel

• Autore: Zerubavel Eviatar
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2012; ©2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 929/.1
• Soggetto topico: Genealogy - Social aspects; Genealogy - Psychological aspects; Genealogy - Political aspects; Families; Kinship; Heredity
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 from. The problem, writes Eviatar Zerubavel, is that biology does not provide us with the full picture. After all, he asks, why do we consider Barack Obama black even though his mother was white? Why did the Nazis believe that unions of Germans and Jews would produce Jews rather than Germans?
• Titolo autorizzato: Ancestors and relatives
• ISBN: 1-283-34886-1; 9786613348869; 0-19-977398-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910800123903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II