Some Family

The Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track of Itself

Szerző: Donald Harman Akenson

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: McGill-Queen's University Press

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In this age of information, genealogical research has become one of the most popular activities in t...

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Szerző

Donald Harman Akenson

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2010

oldal

349

EAN

9780773537279

ISBN

0773537279

Enbook ID

04919028

Kiadó

McGill-Queen's University Press

Súly

488

Méretek

148 x 225 x 20

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In this age of information, genealogical research has become one of the most popular activities in the world, and the "Family History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" is one of the most important resources. Started in 1894, the Mormon genealogical project has grown to include two billion names, 2.4 million rolls of microfilm and 278,000 books, making it the world's largest collection of genealogical information. Donald Akenson explains and evaluates the history and functioning of this massive undertaking and, in the process, provides an insightful study of the Mormon scriptures and their implications for genealogical work. 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.

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