Ancestors - Who We Are and Where We Come From

Everyone--in every place and culture--has ancestors. David Hertzel draws on his interviews with people from a variety of cultural backgrounds across the United States and around the world to provide an engaging foray into the nature of relationships between people today and their ancestors, exploring what ancestry means in the modern world.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Ancestors: Who We Are and Where We Come From
Chapter 2: Sacred Is as Sacred Does
Chapter 3: "Who Are Your Ancestors?"
Chapter 4: Every Person is an Ancestor, a Descendant, and an Individual
Chapter 5: The Ancestral Narrative
Chapter 6: Ancestors in Space and Time
Chapter 7: Good Ancestors, Bad Ancestors
Chapter 8: Reciprocal Arrangements
Conclusion
Directory of Interviewees
Bibliography

About the author

By David Hertzel

Summary

Everyone-in every place and culture-has ancestors. Drawing on his interviews with over thirty people from a variety of cultural backgrounds across the United States and around the world, Hertzel provides an engaging foray into the nature of relationships between people today and their ancestors, exploring what ancestry means in the modern world.

Product details

• Authors: David Hertzel, Hertzel David
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781538104361
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-0436-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Life Stages / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / United States / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Extended Family, Social & cultural anthropology, Sociology: family & relationships, Family & relationships: advice & issues, History of the Americas, ancestry