...This chapter compares the historiographical practice of genealogizing mythic heroes with the genealogies of Jesus in the gospels of Matthew and Luke. It discusses why genealogies went back to heroes and kings, why generations were sometimes omitted, and why traditions of double paternity made sense...

... these poets fashion a literary genealogy that bound Turkish poetry to its Persian and Arabic antecedents, but they also composed verse in a dizzying array of languages, including Arabic, Persian, Turkish—and, in one case, even Armenian. Far from spurning the poetry of ‘others,’ the earliest poets of Anatolian...

... strikes, squats, national policies, and international mapping programs. It also discusses the genealogy of those techniques and how those techniques altered the idea of property as the right to exclude. The chapter looks at contemporary debates about productivity, farm size, technology, democracy...

... foundational houses. In the patrilineal genealogies of foundational men, we find an idealized memory of the direct and unmediated transference of material and immaterial inheritance from father to designated son within the fixed geography of a named house. At the same time, the house of the father subdivides...

... masterwork. Although the concept of imitation was multifaceted in pre-modern Anatolia, this chapter shows that Sultan Valad did not conceive of literary emulation as a reductive, anxiety riddled act. Instead, by ‘following’ in the style of his father, Sultan Valad constructed a new literary genealogy for his...

..., known in Hebrew as the tôlēdôt, they consistently followed the exclusively paternal genealogies with narratives that introduced households. The biblical house, as opposed to the patriline, contained fathers, mothers, wives, concubines, slave wives, firstborn sons, second-born sons...

... by the details of his patrilineal genealogy going back to Ishmael and Abraham. It covers verses on the praising of Prophet Mohammed and the significance of learning about his ancestry and praying for them. Afa Ajura’s poetry continued “Afanim Tola Ayirmo” The Clerics Have Gone Wild “Damba Digoli” Damba Month...