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Roots quest inside America's genealogy boom Jackie Hogan.

By: Hogan, Jackie, 1967-Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham, Maryland Rowman & Littlefield, [2019]Description: 1 online resource (xi, 222 pages)ISBN: 9781442274570; 1442274573Other title: Understanding America's genealogy boomSubject(s): United States -- Genealogy -- History -- 21st century | United States | 2000-2099 | Genealogy -- Social aspects -- United States | Genealogy -- Study and teaching -- United States | Ethnicity -- United States -- History -- 21st century | Group identity -- United States -- History -- 21st century | National characteristics, American | Ethnicity | Genealogy | Genealogy -- Social aspects | Genealogy -- Study and teaching | Group identity | National characteristics, American | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Reference | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Rich & Famous | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / RoyaltyGenre/Form: EBSCO eBooks Additional physical formats: Print version:: Roots quest.DDC classification: 920.00973 LOC classification: CS9 | .H64 2019Online resources: Click here to access online
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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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.

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