Some Family: The Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track of Itself - Couverture rigide

Akenson, Donald Harman

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0773532951 ISBN 13 : 9780773532953

Editeur : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Using supporting evidence that runs from the Solomon Islands and classical China to ancient Ireland, Akenson argues that there are four basic genealogical forms. Highly significant on its own, this insight also provides the information needed to assess the Latter-day Saints' efforts to provide a single narrative of how humanity keeps track of itself. Appendices cover topics of vital interest to historians, genealogists, and ethnographers, such as the use and limits of genetic data in genealogy, the reality of false-paternity as a widespread phenomenon in genealogical lines, and the vexing issues of incest and cousin-marriage. A unique study of a neglected topic, Some Family illuminates the stories that cultures tell themselves through their family trees.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Donald Harman Akenson is Douglas Professor of Canadian and Colonial History, Queen's University, the world's leading scholar on the Irish diaspora, and the author of several major works on the history of Judaism and Christianity.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0773532951
• ISBN 13: 9780773532953
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible