The genealogical sublime / Julia Creet.

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Creet, Julia, 1958- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2020]
Series:Public history in historical perspective.
Subjects:
Genealogy > Computer network resources.
Genealogy > Databases > History.
Genealogy > Databases.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:ix, 204 pages ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.