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Author Zerubavel, Eviatar.

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

Imprint New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

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Description xii, 226 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Genealogy -- Social aspects.
Genealogy -- Psychological aspects.
Genealogy -- Political aspects.
Families.
Kinship.
Heredity.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780199773954 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780199773985 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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