Grounding the family: locality and its discontents in popular genealogy

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Elisabeth Timm, “Grounding the family: locality and its discontents in popular genealogy,” Portail documentaire EnJeu[x], consulté le 26 avril 2024, https://collections.enfance-jeunesse.fr/items/show/1497.

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TitreGrounding the family: locality and its discontents in popular genealogy
CréateurElisabeth Timm
Date2012
TypeJournal Article
AuthorElisabeth Timm
Type de contenuJournal Article
ISSN0425-4597
Abstract NoteThis paper discusses the grounding of the family in popular genealogy today. It applies a historical and comparative approach to the use of parish registers in three empirical cases from Austria. This use consists in a continued process of rooting the family locally, while simultaneously delocalizing it through the digital connection of data kept separate by the Catholic Church for many centuries. Grounding the family is thus a complex articulation of the modern discourse of settledness, closely bound up with a popular historical culture able to access archival sources directly for the first time in history. The paper questions the category of "imagined families", which may marginalize this popular practice of producing kinship and perpetuate the essentialist notion of otherwise "authentic" (e.g. juridical, social, biological) families.
Date2012
Issue2
Pages36-50
Publication TitleEthnologia Europaea
TitreGrounding the family: locality and its discontents in popular genealogy
Volume42

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