Roots quest : inside America's genealogy boom /: inside America's genealogy boom. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Understanding America's genealogy boom
• Further Information: Note: Jackie Hogan.
• Authors: Hogan, Jackie, 1967-
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 222 pages)
• Subjects: 920.00973; 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 / Royalty; United States -- Genealogy -- History -- 21st century; United States; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781442274570; 1442274573
• Related ISBNs: 9781442274563
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 05, 2019).
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