Jeanne Kay Guelke

Geography and Genealogy

Locating Personal Pasts
Herausgeber: Timothy, Dallen J.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Genealogy has become a widely popular pursuit, as millions of people now research their family history, trace their forebears, attend family reunions and travel to ancestral home sites. Geographers have much to contribute to the serious study of the family history phenomenon. Land records, maps and even GIS are increasingly used by genealogical investigators. As a cultural practice, it encompasses peoples' emotional attachments to ancestral places and is widely manifest on the ground as personal heritage travel. Family history research also has significant potential to challenge accepted geographical views of migration, ethnicity, socio-economic class and place-based identities. This volume is possibly the first ever book to address the geographical and scholarly aspects of this increasingly popular social phenomenon. It highlights tools and information sources used by geographers and their application to family history research. Furthermore, it examines family history as a socio-cultural practice, including the activities of tourism, archival research and DNA testing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780754670124
• ISBN-10: 0754670120
• Artikelnr.: 28107791

Autorenporträt

Dallen J. Timothy is Professor and Program Director, Tourism Development and Management, School of Community Resources and Development, Arizona State University, USA. Jeanne Kay Guelke is Professor Emerita in the Department of Geography, University of Waterloo, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Locating Personal Pasts
Jeanne KayGuelke
Dallen J.Timothy; Part 1 Tools
Sources
and Implications for Geography and Family History; Chapter 2 The Unfolding Tale of Using Maps in Genealogical Research
MelindaKashuba; Chapter 3 Genealogy
Historical Geography
and GIS
Mary B.Ruvane
G. RebeccaDobbs; Chapter 4 A Genealogy of Environmental Impact Assessment
WilliamHunter; Chapter 5 Knitting the Transatlantic Bond
Penny L.Richards; Chapter 6 Remaking Time and Space
KevinMeethan; Part 2 Genealogy as a Cultural Practice; Chapter 7 Genealogical Mobility
Dallen J.Timothy; Chapter 8 Genealogy as Religious Ritual
Samuel M.Otterstrom; Chapter 9 Genetics
Genealogy
and Geography
David C.Mountain
JeanneKay Guelke; Chapter 10 Conclusion
Dallen J.Timothy
JeanneKay Guelke;