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 fro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zerubavel, Eviatar
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Temas:
Genealogy > Social aspects.
Genealogy > Psychological aspects.
Genealogy > Political aspects.
Families.
Kinship.
Heredity.
Nuclear families.
Familles.
Parenté.
Hérédité.
kinship.
REFERENCE > Genealogy & Heraldry.
Nuclear families
Families
Genealogy > Social aspects
Heredity
Kinship
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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. 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? In this provoc.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9780199773985
019977398X
1283348861
9781283348867

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