Almost Ancestors

Almost Ancestors
Author: Theodora Kroeber
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1968-10
Genre: Indians of North America
ISBN: 9780871560162

Ancestor Trouble

Ancestor Trouble
Author: Maud Newton
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2023-06-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0812987497

“Extraordinary and wide-ranging . . . a literary feat that simultaneously builds and excavates identity.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) Roxane Gay’s Audacious Book Club Pick • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize • An acclaimed writer goes searching for the truth about her complicated Southern family—and finds that our obsession with ancestors opens up new ways of seeing ourselves—in this “brilliant mix of personal memoir and cultural observation” (The Boston Globe). ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, NPR, Time, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Esquire, Garden & Gun Maud Newton’s ancestors have fascinated her since she was a girl. Her mother’s father was said to have married thirteen times. Her mother’s grandfather killed a man with a hay hook. Mental illness and religious fanaticism percolated Maud’s maternal lines back to an ancestor accused of being a witch in Puritan-era Massachusetts. Newton’s family inspired in her a desire to understand family patterns: what we are destined to replicate and what we can leave behind. She set out to research her genealogy—her grandfather’s marriages, the accused witch, her ancestors’ roles in slavery and other harms. Her journey took her into the realms of genetics, epigenetics, and debates over intergenerational trauma. She mulled over modernity’s dismissal of ancestors along with psychoanalytic and spiritual traditions that center them. Searching and inspiring, Ancestor Trouble is one writer’s attempt to use genealogy—a once-niche hobby that has grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry—to make peace with the secrets and contradictions of her family's past and face its reverberations in the present, and to argue for the transformational possibilities that reckoning with our ancestors offers all of us.

Almost Ancestors

Almost Ancestors
Author: Theodora Kroeber
Publisher:
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1968
Genre: Indians of North America
ISBN:

Almost Autumn

Almost Autumn
Author: Marianne Kaurin
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2017-01-03
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0545889669

An international award-winning novel of World War II, the Holocaust, and first love, set in the snowy streets of Oslo. It's October 1942, in Oslo, Norway. Fifteen-year-old Ilse Stern is waiting to meet boy-next-door Hermann Rod for their first date. She was beginning to think he'd never ask her; she's had a crush on him for as long as she can remember. But Hermann won't be able to make it tonight. What Ilse doesn't know is that Hermann is secretly working in the Resistance, helping Norwegian Jews flee the country to escape the Nazis. The work is exhausting and unpredictable, full of late nights and code words and lies to Hermann's parents, to his boss... to Ilse. And as life under German occupation becomes even more difficult, particularly for Jewish families like the Sterns, the choices made become more important by the hour: To speak up or to look away? To stay or to flee? To act now or wait one more day?In this internationally acclaimed debut, Marianne Kaurin recreates the atmosphere of secrecy and uncertainty in World War II Norway in a moving story of sorrow, chance, and first love.

Ancestors

Ancestors
Author: David Hertzel
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2017-08-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1538104377

People involve their ancestors in every aspect of culture. Individuals and societies worldwide and throughout history have incorporated ancestors into rituals public and private, religious and secular. Societies often organize their aristocracies, tribes, and other kinship groups around ancestral constructions which are defined through laws and customs governing marriage, naming, guardianship, inheritance, and other social practices. Medical professionals consider ancestral information important to a patient’s diagnosis and to the study of disease; many psychiatrists consider one’s relationship to ancestors important in understanding the mental and emotional disposition of subjects. Ancestry and perceptions of ancestry frequently function as a determinant of personal, ethnic, racial, and national identity. For all its larger philosophical, medical, psychological, and religious implications, one fascinating aspect of ancestry is how passionately many people hold to ‘their own’ ancestry, and to their own perceptions of the same. In Ancestors, David Hertzel offers an introductory foray into the nature of relationships people today have with their ancestors, and explores the significance of ancestry and ancestral belief in our modern world. Guided by two questions—“who are your ancestors?” and “what is your relationship to your ancestors?”—Hertzel interviewed thirty-five elders and people of prominence within particular social or intellectual communities. Interviewees were accomplished in an area related to ancestry, its nature or its meaning, and included genealogists, geneticists, tribal chiefs and elders, researchers in some aspect of family or ancestry, family elders, and experienced practitioners or supervisors of particular ancestral rituals. Interviewees were selected from a variety of cultural backgrounds for purposes of contrast, comparison, and breadth—but they are not spokespeople and were not asked to ‘represent’ particular belief systems, doctrines, or Peoples. Rather, the interviewees describe their own personal experiences and beliefs involving ancestors. From these interviews, Hertzel identifies common themes to ancestral practices and beliefs, such as the way we sanctify our ancestors, how we create a living narrative of our ancestry, and how experiences like suffering and love are shared across generations and appear to transcend death. Excerpts from interviews serve as examples throughout his narrative exploration of the concept of ancestry; a selection of full interviews are embedded throughout the text and offer glimpses into the diversity of ways that people think about who they are and where they come from.

Becoming Worthy Ancestors

Becoming Worthy Ancestors
Author: Xolela Mangcu
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2011-08-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1868148203

Why does it matter that nations should care for their archives, and that they should develop a sense of shared identity? And why should these processes take place in the public domain? How can nations possibly speak about a shared sense of identity in pluralistic societies where individuals and groups have multiple identities? And how can such conversations be given relevance in public discussions of reconciliation and development in South Africa? These are the issues that the Public Conversations lecture series – an initiative of the Constitution of Public Intellectual Life Project at Wits University – proceeded from in 2006. Five years later, cross currents in contemporary South Africa have made the resumption of a public debate to clarify the meanings of identity and citizenship even more imperative, and an understanding of ‘archive’ even more urgent. The 2006 lectures were subsequently collected, resulting in this volume which takes its title from Weber’s point, elaborated on in the chapter by Benedict Anderson, that the future asks us to be worthy ancestors to the yet unborn. The book, as did the lecture series, aims to reach a broad and informed reading public because the topic is still of pressing interest in contemporary public discourse. In a changed (and, some might say, degraded) environment of public dialogue, the editor hopes to inspire a re-thinking of the very essence of what it means to be a citizen of South Africa. Becoming Worthy Ancestors aims to make accessible the theoretically informed, sometimes highly academic work of its various contributors. With chapters from high profile international and local contributors, it will be of interest to South African and international audiences. Editing for publication has further enhanced the accessibility of each speaker’s thinking without forfeiting any of its complexity, and the addition of an introductory chapter by the editor contributes to the coherence of the volume. While the target audience is the broad public, the book is based on a core of academic thinking and research.

Ancestors

Ancestors
Author: Frank Ching
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2011-09-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1407029983

Frank Ching brings to life 900 years of Chinese history through his own fascinating family tree. Beginning with his search for the grave of his first recorded ancestor, the 11th century poet Qin Guan, and ending with a moving account of his relationship with his father, a victim of China's historic upheaval, Frank Ching introduces a colourful cast of characters. His unbroken family line includes - among many others - a lovelorn concubine, a traitor, a military hero, an imperial ghost-writer, a minister of punishments and a woman noted for her skills in both verse and martial arts. There is scarcely an aspect of Chinese life, from shamanism to violent rebellion, that Ching doesn't touch upon in this fascinating work. Through his vivid and personal portraits of his ancestors the history of China itself unfolds: from the days of the ancient empire to its radical transformation today.

Tracing Your Naval Ancestors

Tracing Your Naval Ancestors
Author: Simon Fowler
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2011-12-13
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1844686523

This concise guide to naval history and naval records is essential reading and reference for anyone researching the fascinating story of Britains navy and the men and women who served in it. Whether you are interested in the career of an individual seaman, finding out about a medal winner or just want to know more about a particular ship, campaign or operation, this book will point you in the right direction. Simon Fowler assumes the reader has little prior knowledge of the navy and its history. His book shows you how to trace an officer, petty officer or rating from the seventeenth century up to the 1960s using records at the National Archives and elsewhere. The book also covers the specialist and auxiliary services associated with the navy among them the Royal Marines, the Fleet Air Arm, the naval dockyards, the WRNS and the Fleet Auxiliary. In each section he explains which records survive, where they can be found and how they can be used for research. He also recommends resources available online as well as books and memoirs. His handbook is a valuable research tool for anyone who is keen to find out about the career of an ancestor who served in the Royal Navy or was connected with it.

ANCESTORS & SAPIENS

ANCESTORS & SAPIENS
Author: Augustin Ostace
Publisher: Alpha & Omega Sapiens - Uppublishing Being / Augustin Ostace
Total Pages: 71
Release: 2018-12-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

…Before knowing myself better, it is necessary to know my Species Sapiens, to whom I belong in my entirety, both biologically and ontologically… …But my Species Sapiens belongs at its row, to the Genus or Gattung Homo Anthropos, by enlisting here the line of Homo Habilis, of Homo Ergaster, of Homo Erectus, of Homo Heidelbergensis, possible that of Homo Neanderthal… all of them one should know, at least in their maximal generality… …Moreover, one ought to know the Hominid Family, (Orangutan, Chimpanzee, Bonobo), then, the Order Primate, Class Mammals, Phylum Vertebrata, Kingdom Animals and the Domain Multi-cellular… The passing from the universe of single cells of Pre-Cambrian era towards the multi-cells, of Cambrian era, remains a huge mystery of evolution on our planetary system… …Genesis of Sapiens must be accompanied by the Genesis of Life on our Planetary System, with Genesis of Solar System of Milky Way Galaxy, and Genesis of the Universe-in-itself!... …Is it this endeavor a Sapient-o-mania?... Not at all, it is an encyclopedic and interdisciplinary reality of our Species Sapiens!... Nothing more, nothing less… …But, in which way, would be possible to change the whole of Sapiens into a Shooting–star Species?... Possible, but reporting the Sapiens to Sapiens itself, done through a Philosophical System of the whole Species, by re-thinking that the truth is the whole, as well as in science, in philosophy and in anthropology!... …Let’s reiterate that nothing in Sapiens makes sense, except in the light of creativity, through rationality… …More than that, there is no Species owner, SAPIENSEIGENTÜMER! Through SAPIENTOLOGIZATION will be reached out the greatest overdrive in additional speed of knowledge - episteme and creativity - noesis, of the whole Sapiens throughout of its development in the last 50.000 years!... …Almost every human being wants to know primarily, of where she / he comes from, who is she / he and where she/ he goes... …Almost every man would like to know who is her / his ancestors are, and who will be her / his offspring... …Almost every human being would like to know, how was the origin of humankind, its past, its present existence and to found out, to foresee in advance, its possible future... …By observing and researching the nature of human, it was taught that, without ancestors, without preceding branches, no offspring would arise... …Through the discovery of the laws of nature, it has been found or found that the theory of evolution contradicts almost all of the myths of creation of religions and of theologies... …Through the sciences of Biology, of Anthropology and Sapientology, the man had ascertained their kinship with the human beings, by calling himself as Wisdom - man, as Intelligent Being, as Creative Being or HOMO SAPIENS... …With this biological name, HOMO, in connection with the self-given artificial names of SAPIENS by INTELLIGENCE, the humanity development recognizes many creations and achievements (in art, in technology, in science, in civilizations, in partial prosperity, in the treatment of epidemic diseases, in prolongation of average lifespan), by admitting also many catastrophic results of wild behaviors as wars, as civilizations destroying, or as illegal migration, as religious fanaticism and terrorism... The book Ancestors & Sapiens is written and thought in this way and pathway… Ancestors of Sapiens through Sapientologist