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Ancestors and relatives : genealogy, identity and community

Title
Ancestors and relatives : genealogy, identity and community / Eviatar Zerubavel.
Author
Zerubavel, Eviatar.
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

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Description
xii, 226 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • 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.
Call Number
APB 12-161
ISBN
  • 9780199773954 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0199773955 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780199336043 (pbk.)
  • 0199336040 (pbk.)
LCCN
2011005663
OCLC
702941698
Author
Zerubavel, Eviatar.
Title
Ancestors and relatives : genealogy, identity and community / Eviatar Zerubavel.
Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Research Call Number
APB 12-161
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