Digital Genealogy, kinship, affinity, networks, economics, society
Digitised access to genealogy has helped people understand where they and their families have come from. But the potential is so much more
What this space is not about
This blog and website is not about doing genealogy. It doesn't report on lineages of particular families and people.
It does not have any information on places that resource genealogy.
Kinship as mutuality of being
The base line assumption is that kinship and biology are probably the same thing. This is not neccessarily so. Instead the anthropogist Sahlin has stated that kinship instead is about mutuality of being, which is culturally based and not fixed for all time.
Applying Digital Genealogy
Hershkovitz has argued that genealogy as a practice, a topic and as a methodology, has the capacity to function as the flexible boundary of a space into which interdisciplinary approaches, debates and discourses can be poured. This means that Digital Genealogy can contribute to lots of discussions across the humanities.