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Ancestors and Relatives - Genealogy, Identity, and Community (Hardcover, New)
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Ancestors and Relatives - Genealogy, Identity, and Community (Hardcover, New)
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Genealogy has long been one of humanity's greatest obsessions. But
with the rise of genetics, and increasing media attention through
television programs like Who Do You Think You Are? and Faces of
America, we are now told that genetic markers can definitively tell
us where we came from. The problem, writes Eviatar Zerubavel, is
that biology does not provide us with the full picture. After all,
he asks, why do we consider Barack Obama black even though his
mother was white? Why did the Nazis believe that unions of Germans
and Jews would produce Jews rather than Germans? Are sixth cousins
still family? In this provocative book, he offers a r s3h
understanding of relatedness, showing that its social logic
sometimes overrides the biological reality it supposedly reflects.
In fact, rather than just biological facts, social traditions of
remembering and classifying shape the way we trace our ancestors,
identify our relatives, and delineate families, ethnic groups,
nations, and species. Furthermore, genealogies are more than mere
records of history. Drawing on a wide range of evidence, Zerubavel
introduces such concepts as braiding, clipping, pasting, lumping,
splitting, stretching, and pruning to shed light on how we
manipulate genealogies to accommodate personal and collective
agendas of inclusion and exclusion. Rather than simply find out who
our ancestors were and identify our relatives, we actually
construct the genealogical narratives that make them our ancestors
and relatives. An eye-opening re-examination our very notion of
relatedness, Ancestors and Relatives offers a new way of
understanding family, ethnicity, nationhood, race, and humanity.
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