Genealogical Sublime
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algorithmic family history
ancestry and digital future
ancestry as entertainment
ancestry commodification
ancestry corporate history
ancestry DNA book
ancestry media culture
ancestry technology critique
ancestry tracing
ancestry websites
Ancestry.com analysis
archival data collection
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biological inheritance
biometric data and genealogy
biotechnology and culture
biotechnology capitalism
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collective ancestry
commercial DNA tests
consumer DNA ethics
corporate genealogy expansion
critical data studies
critical genealogy studies
cultural impact of DNA testing
cultural memory networks
data and human identity
data commodification
data ethics in genealogy
data ethics in science
data mining and privacy
data privacy and identity
data-driven identity
data-driven self-discovery
digital ancestry tools
digital anthropology
digital archives of humanity
digital heritage preservation
digital identity history
direct-to-consumer genetics
DNA ancestry kits
DNA and family history
DNA databases ethics
DNA test and racial identity
DNA test impact
DNA testing and privacy
DNA testing industry
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ethical genealogy practices
evolution of genealogy tools
familial data networks
family heritage studies
family history industry
family history research
family lineage research
family reconstruction
family records digitization
family tree databases
FamilySearch research
genealogical DNA trends
genealogy and AI
genealogy and big data
genealogy and cultural studies
genealogy and digital humanities
genealogy and LDS Church
genealogy and privacy
genealogy and Silicon Valley
genealogy and surveillance
genealogy and tech critique
genealogy and technology
genealogy business model
genealogy business models
genealogy data mining
genealogy for researchers
genealogy industry growth
genealogy startup culture
genetic determinism debate
genetic genealogy
genetic history
genetic storytelling
global genealogical mapping
historical data preservation
history and DNA education
history of genealogy
home DNA testing critique
human connection through data
human kinship mapping
human origins exploration
identity through DNA
information capitalism
life after death narratives
memory through databases
modern genealogy book
Mormon genealogy archives
Mormon genealogy databases
online genealogy platforms
personal genomics
personal history reconstruction
privatization of genealogy
racial identity in genealogy
religion and genealogy
science and spirituality
surveillance and selfhood
surveillance capitalism
teaching genealogy ethics
technological obsession with lineage
technology and immortality
technology and memory
the science of belonging
Product details
- ISBN 9781625344809
- Weight: 338g
- Dimensions: 154 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jan 2020
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Since the early 2000s, genealogy has become a lucrative business, an accelerating online industry, a massive data mining project, and fodder for reality television. But the fact remains that our contemporary fascination with family history cannot be understood independently of the powerful technological tools that aid and abet in the search for traces of blood, belonging, and difference.
In The Genealogical Sublime, Julia Creet traces the histories of the largest, longest-running, most lucrative, and most rapidly growing genealogical databases to delineate a broader history of the industry. As each unique case study reveals, new database and DNA technologies enable an obsessive completeness -- the desire to gather all of the world's genealogical records in the interests of life beyond death. Archival research and firsthand interviews with Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officials, key industry players (including Ancestry.com founders and Family Search executives), and professional and amateur family historians round out this timely and essential study.
Julia Creet is professor of English at York University and director and producer of the 2016 documentary film, Data Mining the Deceased: Ancestry and the Business of Family.
