Bibliograph

Roots quest, inside America's genealogy boom, Jackie Hogan

Type

Label

Roots quest, inside America's genealogy boom, Jackie Hogan

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Roots quest

Oclc number

1044777552

Responsibility statement

Jackie Hogan

Sub title

inside America's genealogy boom

Summary

"In Roots Quest, sociologist Jackie Hogan digs into our current genealogy boom to ask why we are so interested in our family history. She shows how the surging popularity of genealogy is a response to large-scale social changes, and she explores the way our increasingly rootless society fuels the quest for an elemental sense of belonging--for roots."--Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Roots quests: an introduction -- A genealogy of American genealogy -- Roots work: genealogy across cultures -- Memory work in the age of quantum genealogy -- The new blood quantum: genetic genealogy and the creation of kinship -- Who do we think we are? Televised roots quests -- In search of the "living dead": ancestors, zombies, and American roots quests -- Imagined homes: roots tourism and the quest for self -- Our ancestors, ourselves: roots and identity in an age of rootlessness

resource.variantTitle

Understanding America's genealogy boom

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