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Ancestors and Relatives: Genealogy, Identity, and Community

Eviatar Zerubavel

Noted social scientist Eviatar Zerubavel casts a critical eye on how we trace our past-individually and collectively arguing that rather than simply find out who our ancestors are from genetics or history, we actually create the stories that make them our ancestors.

Society & CultureSociety & Culture · high confidenceSociety & Culture81 signalsLlm Classifier: Society & Culture -> Society & CultureOpen Library: Family -> Society & CultureKeyword Classifier: Science -> ScienceScience & Discovery

Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
PROSE Award for Anthropology and Sociology2012Honorable mentionOfficial source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    Instead of merely discovering who our ancestors are through genetics or history, we create the stories that make them our ancestors.

    Model confidence 78%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    66 / 100 academic

    Academic

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 74%.