Ancestors and relatives : genealogy, identity, and community
Eviatar Zerubavel (Author)
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
xii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9780199773954, 9780199336043, 0199773955, 0199336040
702941698
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