Ancestors and relatives genealogy, identity, and community

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zerubavel, Eviatar.
Corporate Author: Ebooks Corporation.
Language:English
Subjects:
Online Access:Link to e-book
Item Description:Description based on print version record.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
ISBN:019977398X (electronic bk.)
9780199773985 (electronic bk.)
Table of 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.