Sibling Action: The Genealogical Structure of Modernity

by Stefani Engelstein

Book Overview

The sibling stands out as a ubiquitous--yet unacknowledged--conceptual touchstone across the European long nineteenth century. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, Europeans embarked on a new way of classifying the world, devising genealogies that determined degrees of relatedness by tracing heritage through common ancestry. This methodology organized historical systems into family trees in a wide array of new disciplines, transforming into...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231180411
• ISBN13: 9780231180412
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.7"