Family History and Family CultureFamily History and Family CultureThe purpose of this blog is to promote the circulation of ideas on family history, family culture, and the connections between the two. I am looking for thicker-and-richer approaches that go beyond names, dates, and narratives to probe the social, po Articles
I tell my university students that there are at least three
2007-01-15 23:32:03 I tell my university students that there are at least three kinds of family history as pursued in the United States today: 1.) The ?history of the family? as a social, political, and economic unit. Fertility, marriage customs, division of roles and powers, parenting practices and powers, how families brought about their economy, etc. This is a fairly active field in the historical profession with journals, conferences, and dedicated university courses. 2.) A less professionalized pursuit, once largely known as ?genealogy,? now increasingly called ?family history,? which seeks to deal with specific families-of-origin in a person?s ancestry, usually the one doing the research. The difference between family history and genealogy is one of scale and scope. Traditionally, genealogy has been limited mostly to the names of one?s ancestors, along with the dates and places of their vital events?their birth, baptism or christening, marriage, childbirths, death, and burial. So, names, da... More About: University , Student , Students , Hat , East |
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