Ancestors and Relatives - Genealogy, Identity, and Community

Genealogy has long been one of humanity's greatest obsessions. But with the rise of genetics, and increasing media attention to it through programs like Who Do You Think You Are? and Faces of America, we are now told that genetic markers can definitively tell us who we are and where we came from.

List of contents

• List of Figures


• Preface


• The Genealogical Imagination


• Ancestry and Descent


• Co-Descent


• Nature and Culture


• The Politics of Descent


• The Genealogy of the Future


• The Future of Genealogy


• Bibliography

About the author

Eviatar Zerubavel is the Board of Governors Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University. He is the author of numerous books, most recently The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life and Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past.

Summary

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.

Additional text

An erudite treatise about how culture drives human cognition about near and remote relatives, Ancestors and Relatives offers lay and academic audiences alike a great read.

Product details

• Authors: Eviatar Zerubavel, Eviatar (Board of Governors Professor of Sociology Zerubavel
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.08.2013
• EAN: 9780199336043
• ISBN: 978-0-19-933604-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories