...This chapter examines genealogy as a motif from early in William Faulkner’s career and its link to the mainstream eugenics movement in the United States. It looks at Faulkner’s construction of lineages for the Snopes, Sartoris, Compson, Bundren, and Goodwin clans that were for the most part studies...

...This chapter gives a genealogy of suffrage restrictions in Maryland, which held a series of constitutional conventions immediately before, during, and following the emancipation of chattel slaves. Delegates debated the limits of political membership and the franchise in the context of a perceived...

... reproduction. Derrida's “deconstructive genealogy” presents a challenge to the notion of parent as patent and suggests that even in the face of changing technologies, we cannot control the chance elements of reproduction, even within the most reliable machines. Here, I turn the notions of parent...

... and the history of the Roman aristocracy could become fundamentally the same. Life of Melania the Younger Rome late antiquity Melania the Younger Pinian property inheritance Serena empress wealth genealogy Paula aristocracy Basilica Constantiniana Constantine Eusebius Liber Pontificalis fastigium...

...This chapter focuses on the discipline specialising in the genealogy of sayyids and sharīfs, developed by the Family of the Prophet Muhammad (Ahl al-Bayt) from the mid- to the latter half of the ninth century CE. It examines different types of writings...

...This chapter examines the case of the Nasrids of Granada in late Muslim Spain. In his biographical dictionary al-Ihata fi akhbar Gharnata, the Andalusi scholar Ibn al-Khatib (d. 776/1374) emphasises the genealogical links of Arab families in Granada in his day with those...

...This chapter examines how genealogy may be used for writing about the past by focusing on the family of the Prophet Muhammad and the evidence that genealogies provide regarding marriage alliances and strategies. In particular, it considers the question of endogamy, or marriage within the ‘family...

... poststructuralism Rorty Richard archaeology deconstruction genealogy history Metaphysical Meditations Descartes metaphysics modernity “Cogito and the History of Madness” Derrida critique Descartes René doubt exclusion History of Madness Foucault madness methodologies reason dialectics Hegel G W F...

... for deconstructive genealogy. Freud Sigmund History of Madness Foucault power psychoanalysis “‘To Do Justice to Freud’” Derrida Bennington Geoffrey Beyond the Pleasure Principle Freud drive for mastery —Works Beyond the Pleasure Principle history of madness Naas Michael possibility unthought genealogy...

... the repertoire to be embodied in genealogically embedded, place-specific musical authorities. At the same time, the sense of an archipelago of distinct urban musical centers is tied to the origin narrative of Andalusi music, which claims that the repertoire emerged from specific Iberian cities and was brought...

... revivalism rupture technologies temporality value Aboura Mostefa archives associations authority Boukoura Hadi circulation collections consciousness consolidation copyright Derrida Jacques discourse documentation El Riath evanescence genealogical generations heaviness hoarding hoards...

...This chapter gives background information and genealogy of Dvorak’s parents, Edwin McKim and Anna Lehr. Their upbringings are briefly discussed, along with their courtship, marriage, and early careers in theater and vaudeville. The chapter ends with the couple in New York awaiting the birth...

...This book examines why tribal genealogies continue to be a central facet of modern Saudi identity despite the erosion of kinship ties resulting from almost 300 years of religious conditioning, and despite the unprecedented material transformation of Saudi society in the oil age. It considers what...

...This chapter examines the compulsion to claim tribal belonging in relation to a set of institutional policies and techniques adopted by the modern Saudi state over the course of the twentieth century. It explains how these policies and techniques combine to produce a genealogical rule of governance...

..., unintentionally, between two economies, between two regimes of law and truth, between the symbolic law and the semiotic, between the law of the father and a yearning to revert to the mother's body. However, in writing this book, her own scroll, Ruth is revealed as another descendant of a genealogy of imaginary...

... sociality Black men Black Power movement Bunche Ralph Crisis of the Negro Intellectual Cruse Ebony Magazine Harris Abram Howard University Law School memoirs Terrell “Problems of the Negro Woman Intellectual ” Blackhood revolutionary Black Woman Bambara race women intellectual genealogy Black...

... investment. The chapter theorizes GID (Girls in Development) as a distinct paradigm for framing girls in development discourse and practice that is informed by and also distinct from WID (Women in Development) and GAD (Gender and Development) by situating its emergence genealogically. In the context of GID...

... genetic marriage mobilities politics population genetics reproduction sex and sexuality social life testing and tests genetic Wells Spencer women Abu El Haj Nadia biohistories DNA evolution genealogy genetic genography genomics lineages men past the phylogeography sampling scales...

... genealogy. ancestry categories ethnicity geographies lineages nationhood and nations scales biomedical genetics descent differences diseases Fujimura Joan H heritage identity International HapMap Project migrations population genetics populations Rajagopalan Ramya belonging culture s...

...This chapter discusses the key findings of the second section of this book about the genealogical travel writings of the Hadramis. The focus of this section is mainly on the Hadrami sayyids who combined their genealogies with other textual genres such as mysticism, history, and law. This chapter...