Reclaiming the ancestral past: narrative, rhetoric and the ‘convict stain’

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Titre	Reclaiming the ancestral past: narrative, rhetoric and the ‘convict stain’
Créateur	Ronald D. Lambert
Date	06/01/2002
Langue	en
Type	Journal Article
Author	Ronald D. Lambert
Type de contenu	Journal Article
DOI	10.1177/144078302128756534
ISSN	1440-7833, 1741-2978
Abstract Note	This paper reports the arguments used by members of two convictdescendant societies in embracing their convict ancestry. The data are taken from interviews that I conducted in 1999. In the main, respondents were involved in genealogy prior to discovering their or their spouses' convict ancestry. Respondents effectively countered ancestral stigma by making two kinds of argument. In the first, they recast ancestral convicts as: objects of quasi-professional interest; nation-builders; a minority within a multicultural society; collectibles; and embodying ‘interesting stories’. The second type of argument forwarded more particularized treatments of convict ancestors by: minimizing the gravity of their offences; temporally distancing descendants from them; empathizing with them; and claiming their redemption. I offer some concluding thoughts on the sociology of memory and the place of genealogical memory workers within the family.
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Date	06/01/2002
Issue	2
Journal Abbreviation	Journal of Sociology
Langue	en
Library Catalog	jos.sagepub.com
Pages	111-127
Publication Title	Journal of Sociology
Short Title	Reclaiming the ancestral past
Titre	Reclaiming the ancestral past: narrative, rhetoric and the ‘convict stain’
URL	http://jos.sagepub.com/content/38/2/111
Volume	38
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