Introduction: Emerging Directions for Family History Studies
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Tanya Evans
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Jerome de Groot
Abstract
This introduction charts the rise of family history across the globe and its international impact upon culture, biomedicine, and technology. It introduces the contributions to this special issue from interdisciplinary scholars based in the US, Canada, Brazil, Europe, Australia and India that have collaborated internationally over the past three years. It argues that public historians need to take the practice of family history seriously and that all scholars can learn from its collaborative, integrated, international practice. We are presented with overwhelming evidence of the need to decentralize and trouble the Eurocentrism of existing historical scholarship. This special issue provides a platform for the conversations we have been having about family history over the past three years and encourages others to join in.
Acknowledgements
We acknowledge the support of the following in funding this research: Ancestry.com.au; Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK; Manchester-Melbourne fund, University of Manchester; Macquarie University.
© 2019 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
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Articles in the same Issue
- Section on family history, edited by Tanya Evans and Jerome de Groot
- Emerging questions in family history studies
- Introduction: Emerging Directions for Family History Studies
- Family History and the Global Politics of DNA
- Family History Collaborators in Conversation
- “The Genealogical sublime”: An Interview with Julie Creet
- The Roles of Authenticity and Immediacy in Engaging Family Historians in Online Learning Designed to Advance Academic Skills
- Practical Solutions: Genealogy and the Potential of Public Pedagogy in Poland
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- “A Fool’s errand”: Lonnie Bunch and the Creation of the National Museum of African American History and Culture
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- Some Reflections on Public History in Canada Today
- Reviews
- Andersen, Tea Sindbæk and Barbara Törnquist-Plewa: Disputed Memory: Emotions and Memory Politics in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe
- Paul Ashton and Alex Trapeznik: What is Public History Globally? Working with the Past in the Present
