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Zerubavel, Eviatar.

Ancestors and relatives genealogy, identity, and community / [electronic resource] : Eviatar Zerubavel. - New York : Oxford University Press, c2012. - xii, 226 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Genealogy--Social aspects.
Genealogy--Psychological aspects.
Genealogy--Political aspects.
Families.
Kinship.
Heredity.

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: CS14 / .Z47 2012eb

Dewey Class. No.: 929/.1