{"product_id":"ancestors-and-relatives-genealogy-identity-and-community-9780199773954","title":"Ancestors and Relatives: Genealogy, Identity, and Community","description":"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 \u003cem\u003eWho Do You Think You Are?\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFaces of America\u003c\/em\u003e, we are now told that genetic markers can definitively tell us who we are and where we came from. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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 provocative book, he offers a fresh 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn eye-opening re-examination of our very notion of relatedness, \u003cem\u003eAncestors and Relatives\u003c\/em\u003e offers a new way of understanding family, ethnicity, nationhood, race, and humanity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eviatar Zerubavel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/09\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.80w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199773954\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e PROSE - Honorable Mention\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEviatar Zerubavel\u003c\/strong\u003e is Board of Governors Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life, The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life, The Seven-Day Circle: The History and Meaning of the Week, Social Mindscapes: \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eAn Invitation to Cognitive Sociology\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eTime Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39937653342323,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_8ee0ae9e-3f66-44ec-8005-56eebf63a5b9.jpg?v=1647995057","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/ancestors-and-relatives-genealogy-identity-and-community-9780199773954","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}