Ancestors and relatives [electronic resource] : genealogy, identity, and community / Eviatar Zerubavel.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.Description: xii, 226 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 929/.1 22
LOC classification:
  • CS14 .Z47 2012eb
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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.
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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. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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