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Kinship, affinity and connectedness : exploring the role of genealogy in personal lives
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Kramer, Anne-Marie Caroline (2011) Kinship, affinity and connectedness : exploring the role of genealogy in personal lives. Sociology, Vol.45 (No.3). pp. 379-395. doi:10.1177/0038038511399622
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038511399622
Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CS Genealogy H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Belonging (Social psychology), Genealogy, Kinship, Group identity, Identity (Psychology) | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Sociology | ||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||
| ISSN: | 0038-0385 | ||||
| Official Date: | June 2011 | ||||
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| Volume: | Vol.45 | ||||
| Number: | No.3 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 379-395 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/0038038511399622 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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