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



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Autore: Zerubavel Eviatar Visualizza persona
Titolo: Ancestors and relatives : genealogy, identity, and community / / Eviatar Zerubavel Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-34886-1
9786613348869
0-19-977398-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910800123903321
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