The genealogical sublime / Julia Creet.

"Since the early 2000s, genealogy has become a lucrative business, an accelerating online industry, a massive data mining project, and fodder for reality television. But the fact remains that our contemporary fascination with family history cannot be understood independently of the powerful technolo...

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Main Author: Creet, Julia, 1958- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2020]
Series:Public history in historical perspective.
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Physical Description:ix, 204 pages ; 23 cm.
Format: Book

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505 0 |a CONFUCIUS: The Oldest Genealogy in the World -- THE MORMONS: Doctrine and Data -- ANCESTRY.INC -- ICELAND: End Games -- GENETIC GENEALOGY: The Double Helix of Inheritance -- THE NEW NATIVE: Sublime Percentages of Self and Belonging -- THE GENEALOGICAL SUBLIME: We Are All Related. 
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