Der Band stellt Schlüsselbegriffe der Public History vor und erschließt diese über die wichtigsten Themenfelder und zentrale Forschungsperspektiven. Er richtet sich an Studierende, Lehrende und Praktiker:innen, die sich mit Geschichte in der Öffentlichkeit befassen und bietet Zugänge zur theoretischen Fundierung der Public History als Teil der historischen Kulturwissenschaften an.
History in an age of genetics In recent years, the media have repeatedly seized on the findings of genetic research to make headlines such as the following: »Finding the Iceman's 19 living relatives«; 1 »A million Vi kings still live among us: One in 33 men can claim direct descent from the Norse warriors«; 2 »How Germanic are we?;« 3 »Britain is more Germanic than it thinks«; 4 and »We Europeans are Asians«. 5 Articles such as these already attest to the increasing attention the field of »ge netic history« is receiving in public discourse. They also clearly evoke a major fascination of this new discipline: the promise of a new link between history and modern identities, a connection between past and present established biologically, via the genes people have inherited from historical ancestors. Unlike other scientific methods applied to the study of history and archaeology (e.g. carbon dating or isotope analysis), genetics is immediately con * This paper presents remarks made among the conveners of the conference »Genetic History: A Challenge to His torical and Archaeological Studies« (Humboldt University Berlin, 12 October 2015). Some paragraphs have been translated by E.R. Jaksch.
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