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Book The Spiegel Family and Their Kin

Download or read book The Spiegel Family and Their Kin written by Charles Martin Speegle and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Genealogies Cataloged by the Library of Congress Since 1986

Download or read book Genealogies Cataloged by the Library of Congress Since 1986 written by Library of Congress and published by Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service. This book was released on 1991 with total page 1368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bibliographic holdings of family histories at the Library of Congress. Entries are arranged alphabetically of the works of those involved in Genealogy and also items available through the Library of Congress.

Book Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family

Download or read book Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family written by Lewis Henry Morgan (ethnoloog, anthropoloog) and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Politics of Making Kinship

Download or read book The Politics of Making Kinship written by Erdmute Alber and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2022-12-09 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long tradition of Western political thought included kinship in models of public order, but the social sciences excised it from theories of the state, public sphere, and democratic order. Kinship has, however, neither completely disappeared from the political cultures of the West nor played the determining social and political role ascribed to it elsewhere. Exploring the issues that arise once the divide between kinship and politics is no longer taken for granted, The Politics of Making Kinship demonstrates how political processes have shaped concepts of kinship over time and, conversely, how political projects have been shaped by specific understandings, idioms and uses of kinship. Taking vantage points from the post-Roman era to early modernity, and from colonial imperialism to the fall of the Berlin Wall and beyond this international set of scholars place kinship centerstage and reintegrate it with political theory.

Book Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family

Download or read book Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family written by Lewis Henry Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jarrett

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  • Author : Charles E. Jarrett
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 486 pages

Download or read book Jarrett written by Charles E. Jarrett and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Jarrett, the thirteenth child of John Jarrett (d. 1755), was born 18 December 1747 in Macungie Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He married Mary Catherine Moyer. They had ten children. He died in 1822 in Buncombe County, North Carolina. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in North Carolina.

Book Kinship and Family in Ancient Egypt

Download or read book Kinship and Family in Ancient Egypt written by Leire Olabarria and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this interdisciplinary study, Leire Olabarria examines ancient Egyptian society through the notion of kinship. Drawing on methods from archaeology and sociocultural anthropology, she provides an emic characterisation of ancient kinship that relies on performative aspects of social interaction. Olabarria uses memorial stelae of the First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom (ca.2150–1650 BCE) as her primary evidence. Contextualising these monuments within their social and physical landscapes, she proposes a dynamic way to explore kin groups through sources that have been considered static. The volume offers three case studies of kin groups at the beginning, peak, and decline of their developmental cycles respectively. They demonstrate how ancient Egyptian evidence can be used for cross-cultural comparison of key anthropological topics, such as group formation, patronage, and rites of passage.

Book Anthropologica

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Anthropologica written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine

Download or read book Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gilbert  Knappenberger  Jarrett   Allied Families

Download or read book Gilbert Knappenberger Jarrett Allied Families written by Dorothy Elsie Worman and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emigrant ancestor of this family was (Hans) George Gilbert (bapt. 1698), son of (Hans) Jacob Gilbert (bapt. 1661) and Anna Catharine Kuhlwein. He married Anna Elisabeth Gruber (b. 1702) 1724 at Hoffen- heim. She was a daughter of Conrad Gruber and Anna Catharine Gruber. George Gilbert was a master taylor. He had nine children born in Hoffenheim, Germany. Family emigrated 1750 from Germany arriving in Philadelphia. They settled in Montgo- mery County in the area that is now called Gilbertsville. Descendants live in Pennsylvania. Includes descendants of Wolff Albrecht Knappenberger (1630-1701), who was born in Adelsheim, Mosbach, Baden, Germany. He married Anna Maria Schmidt (d. 1698) 1663 in Widdern, Jagst, Wuerttemberg. The Knappenbergers who came to Pennsylvania in the 18th century are descendants of their second son, John Albrecht (1666-1743) and his wife, Anna Katharina (1672-1729). Also includes the descendants of John (1695-1755) and Anna Maria Jarrett of Macungie Township now in Lehigh Co. Pennsylvania.

Book Between the World and Me

Download or read book Between the World and Me written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by One World. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race” (Rolling Stone) NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNN • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Washington Post • People • Entertainment Weekly • Vogue • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • New York • Newsday • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.

Book House of Horrors

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  • Author : Nige Cawthorne
  • Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
  • Release : 2008-08-04
  • ISBN : 1857826450
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book House of Horrors written by Nige Cawthorne and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the quiet Austrian town of Amstetten in the balmy spring of April 2008, a truly horrifying vision of hell was discovered by police in the cellar of a normal suburban home. On 28 August 1984, seemingly respectable family man Josef Fritzl had lured Elisabeth, the youngest of his seven children, into the cellar of their family home, where he then drugged and handcuffed her in a windowless dungeon he'd spent years constructing. For the next 24 years Josef held his daughter captive in unimaginable conditions and repeatedly raped her, fathering seven children. When the eldest captive child, Kerstin, was admitted to hospital, Josef's sickening web of incest and abuse was uncovered by the authorities. This is the full and utterly disturbing true story of what happened in those underground chambers of horror.

Book Infected Kin

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  • Author : Ellen Block
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2019-05-17
  • ISBN : 1978804768
  • Pages : 251 pages

Download or read book Infected Kin written by Ellen Block and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AIDS has devastated communities across southern Africa. In Lesotho, where a quarter of adults are infected, the wide-ranging implications of the disease have been felt in every family, disrupting key aspects of social life. In Infected Kin, Ellen Block and Will McGrath argue that AIDS is fundamentally a kinship disease, examining the ways it transcends infected individuals and seeps into kin relations and networks of care. While much AIDS scholarship has turned away from the difficult daily realities of those affected by the disease, Infected Kin uses both ethnographic scholarship and creative nonfiction to bring to life the joys and struggles of the Basotho people at the heart of the AIDS pandemic. The result is a book accessible to wide readership, yet built upon scholarship and theoretical contributions that ensure Infected Kin will remain relevant to anyone interested in anthropology, kinship, global health, and care. Supplementary instructor resources (https://www.csbsju.edu/sociology/faculty/anthropology-teaching-resources/infected-kin-teaching-resources)

Book The Intimate Environment

Download or read book The Intimate Environment written by Arlene S. Skolnick and published by Addison-Wesley Longman. This book was released on 1992 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New York Jews and Great Depression

Download or read book New York Jews and Great Depression written by Beth S. Wenger and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicling the experience of New York City's Jewish families during the Great Depression, this work tells the story of a generation of immigrants and their children as they faced an uncertain future in America.

Book Act One

Download or read book Act One written by Moss Hart and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Act One is the autobiography of Moss Hart, an American playwright and theatre director. Born into impoverished circumstances—his father was often unemployed—Hart left school at age twelve for a series of odd jobs that included being an entertainment director at a Catskills summer resort. Hart’s big break came in 1930 with the Broadway hit Once in a Lifetime, written with George Kaufman. The two would collaborate again on You Can’t Take It With You (1936) and The Man Who Came To Dinner (1939). You Can’t Take It With You won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1937, and the 1938 film version, directed by Frank Capra, won Oscars for both Best Picture and Best Director. Act One was adapted for a 1963 film starring George Hamilton, and for a 2014 stage production starring Tony Shalhoub and Andrea Martin. HarperTorch brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperTorch collection to build your digital library.

Book The Comfort of Kin

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  • Author : Monika Schreiber
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2014-05-28
  • ISBN : 9004274251
  • Pages : 431 pages

Download or read book The Comfort of Kin written by Monika Schreiber and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Comfort of Kin Monika Schreiber presents a study of the social and religious life of the Samaritans, a minority in modern Israel and the Palestinian Territories. Utilizing approaches ranging from anthropological theory and method to comparative history and religion, she approaches this community from diverse empirical and epistemic angles. Her account of the Samaritans, usually studied for their Bible and their role in ancient history, is enriched by a thorough treatment of the Samaritan family, a powerful institution rooted in notions of patrilineal descent and perpetuated in part by consanguineous marriage (which differs from incest in degree rather than in kind). Schreiber also discusses how the tiny community is affected by its demographic predicament, intermarriage, and identity issues.