Ancestors and relatives
Subtitle: genealogical visions of family, ethnicity, race, and humanity
By: Eviatar Zerubavel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780199773954
Subjects: Heredity; Families; Genealogy; Psychological aspects; Social aspects; Political aspects; Kinship
Description: Noted social scientist Eviatar Zerubavel casts a critical eye on how we trace our past-individually and collectively arguing that rather than simply find out who our ancestors are from genetics or history, we actually create the stories that make them our ancestors.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The genealogical imagination; title: Ancestry and descent; title: Lineage; title: Pedigree; title: Origins; title: Co-descent; title: Kinship; title: Community and identity; title: Nature and culture; title: Blood; title: Nature or culture?; title: The rules of genealogical lineation; title: The rules of genealogical delineation; title: The politics of descent; title: Stretching; title: Cutting and pasting; title: Clipping; title: Braiding; title: Lumping; title: Marginalizing; title: Splitting; title: Pruning; title: The genealogy of the future; title: Genealogical engineering; title: Integration; title: Segregation; title: Extinction; title: The future of genealogy.