Some Family: The Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track of Itself

by Donald Harman Akenson

Book Overview

Using supporting evidence that runs from the Solomon Islands and classical China to ancient Ireland, Akenson argues that there are four basic genealogical forms. Highly significant on its own, this insight also provides the information needed to assess the Latter-day Saints' efforts to provide a single narrative of how humanity keeps track of itself. Appendices cover topics of vital interest to historians, genealogists, and ethnographers, such as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773532951
• ISBN13: 9780773532953
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 9.2"