13 Routes to the Roots

Legrand, Caroline

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“…20 Governments have also tried to attract tourists from countries whose residents are highly interested in genealogy, and then present a modernized society to such tourists. 21 Family history hobbyists now enjoy "speed-relating" via access to lightning-fast, searchable electronic databases. This is enabled and dominated by large Internet companies (such as Ancestry.com, hereafter simply "Ancestry").…”

Section: Genealogical Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This approach rests on the still-popular notion that kinship is more biological than social, 30 wherein people seek to connect with blood relatives. 31 Since the early, initial emphasis upon the descendants of dynastic elites, there has been a re-democratization in the modern era. The new approach is less concerned with the social standing of who was one's ancestors, instead prioritizing "rules associated with historical, legal, and social science research," wherein documented relations require triangulating data sources (i.e., multiple such documents).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Legacies of Legibility: Genealogical Story-Telling as an Echo of State Power

Williams

2023

Journal of Family History

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Genealogy necessitates historical records, the majority of which derive from government sources, despite families’ “private” lives. State records weren’t intended to service future family historians, but were a means to state-formation and power. Consequently, records used by family historians reflect statist concerns, not state subjects’. Genealogy databases and censuses were analyzed to determine how many derive from state sources. An individual, anecdotal example focused upon a US Census record illuminates genealogical insight and misunderstanding; despite relevance, interpretation problems confront family historians. Genealogical research is limited by modernity's governmentality and the state gaze, impacts generally under-acknowledged by the average family historian.

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Section: Genealogical Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Genealogical Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Legacies of Legibility: Genealogical Story-Telling as an Echo of State Power

Williams

2023

Journal of Family History

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Kinship Knowledge and the State: The Case of Argentina’s Adult “Living Disappeared”

Vaisman

2019

The Cambridge Handbook of Kinship

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Rodologia: Genealogy as Therapy in Post‐Soviet Russia

Leykin¹

2015

Ethos

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The article examines how people in post‐Soviet Russia learn to interpret Soviet political genealogies as implicated in their own family histories. Based on long‐term fieldwork in a large provincial city in Russia, it focuses on a particular form of amateur genealogy called Rodologia (rodstvo = kinship). Informed by a burgeoning self‐help culture, Rodologia's followers argue that psychological “self‐realization” can be achieved by identifying the effects of state violence on family histories. Using a Lamarckian‐like idea of heredity, Rodologia argues that social and political upheavals, such as gulags, collectivization, and wars, “scar” people's genes and shape the behavior, self, and history of their descendants. The article demonstrates how popular attempts to attribute meanings to Soviet state violence are mediated by a surprising alliance of two cultural logics for articulating the self emerging in post‐Soviet Russia—a thriving therapeutic “self‐help” culture and a form of recollection inspired by genealogical imagination. A flourishing therapeutic culture and amateur genealogy, I show, emerge as a means to both organize one's relation to the Soviet past and to make sense of fundamental changes occurring in meanings of political order in post‐Soviet Russia.

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13 Routes to the Roots

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Legacies of Legibility: Genealogical Story-Telling as an Echo of State Power

Legacies of Legibility: Genealogical Story-Telling as an Echo of State Power

Kinship Knowledge and the State: The Case of Argentina’s Adult “Living Disappeared”

Rodologia: Genealogy as Therapy in Post‐Soviet Russia

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