Kinship, Affinity and Connectedness: Exploring the Role of Genealogy in Personal Lives
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Anne-Marie Kramer, “Kinship, Affinity and Connectedness: Exploring the Role of Genealogy in Personal Lives,” Portail documentaire EnJeu[x], consulté le 3 décembre 2024, https://collections.enfance-jeunesse.fr/items/show/1489.
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Statut du document | Public |
Titre | Kinship, Affinity and Connectedness: Exploring the Role of Genealogy in Personal Lives |
Créateur | Anne-Marie Kramer |
Date | 06/01/2011 |
Langue | en |
Type | Journal Article |
Author | Anne-Marie Kramer |
Type de contenu | Journal Article |
DOI | 10.1177/0038038511399622 |
ISSN | 0038-0385, 1469-8684 |
Abstract Note | Drawing on the 2008 Mass Observation Directive ‘Doing Family Research’, this article explores the role of genealogy in personal lives from the perspective of genealogists and non-genealogists in the UK. Analysing the ends to which genealogy is put, it finds that genealogy is a key kinship practice, mapping connectedness, offering a resource for identity-work, and allowing belonging in time. Engaging with anthropological work on kinship, relatedness and remembrance and with recent sociological work on identity and affinity, this article explores how family history as a creative and imaginative memory and kinship practice is simultaneously used to map affinities and connectedness, enact relatedness, and produce self-identity. It argues that examining the role of genealogy and the genealogical imaginary reveals that conventional as well as non-conventional kinship produces partial and insecure identities. This compels everyday personal engagement with the meaning and legacy of inheritance for collective and individual identification and identity. |
Access Date | 2015-07-06 14:33:49 |
Date | 06/01/2011 |
Issue | 3 |
Journal Abbreviation | Sociology |
Langue | en |
Library Catalog | soc.sagepub.com |
Pages | 379-395 |
Publication Title | Sociology |
Short Title | Kinship, Affinity and Connectedness |
Titre | Kinship, Affinity and Connectedness: Exploring the Role of Genealogy in Personal Lives |
URL | http://soc.sagepub.com/content/45/3/379 |
Volume | 45 |
Attachment Title | Snapshot |
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