On gene-ealogy: identity, descent, and affiliation in the era of home DNA testing

Abel, Sarah; Frieman, Catherine J.

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“…This highlights the complex relationship between science and society and the need for careful examination of the social implications of scientific developments. Abel and Frieman (2023) examine the global market for DTCGT and its effects on notions of identity, descent, kinship, and racial affiliation. They consider how amateur genetic genealogies, aided by advances in technology and the availability of DTC kits, are reshaping traditional ideas about identity and belonging.…”

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Preface to the Special Issue on Genetics, DTC, and Their Social Implications

Takezawa

2023

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Preface to the Special Issue on Genetics, DTC, and Their Social Implications

Takezawa

2023

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Kinship, Gender, and Ancient DNA

Frieman,

McNeil

2024

The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology

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Despite their importance to social and cultural anthropology, kinship studies have rarely featured in archaeological research. This situation has rapidly changed, in large part as a response to the explosion of paleogenomic data, and a whole raft of new approaches to kinship, relationality, and biological relatedness are emerging. Here, we discuss this dynamic new field of archaeological kinship research with regard to both its genomic and social archaeological aspects. We build on feminist critiques of bio‐essentialism to draw out the limitations of genetic data for telling us about social relations and take inspiration from First Nations scholarship to argue that an expansive, complex, and deeply social understanding of kinship is accessible to archaeologists.

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Decolonising an Irish Surname by Working the Hyphen of Gene-Ealogy

Fitzpatrick,

Fitzpatrick

2023

Genealogy

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The surname Fitzpatrick is readily identified as Irish. Until recently, the traditional Fitzpatrick surname narrative was of a medieval super-progenitor named Giolla Phádraig. His offspring, the eponymous Mac Giolla Phádraig, it was said, somehow came to dwell in every Irish province; yet this is an Irish surname myth that works to erase the history of ancient ‘Fitzpatrick’ clans. This article demonstrates how deconstructing the surname Fitzpatrick, through working the hyphen of gene-eaology, is a practice of decolonisation. Via genetic data and archival records, dominant clan identities are disrupted, while connections with lost clans are re/membered. Critical analysis dismantles the dominant narrative imposed by colonial strategies and reconnects people with kinship groups and forgotten forebears. Questions arise from the deconstruction of an Irish surname. How might new clan identities be imagined, and how is losing a dominant surname narrative negotiated?

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On gene-ealogy: identity, descent, and affiliation in the era of home DNA testing

Cited by 3 publications

References 109 publications

Preface to the Special Issue on Genetics, DTC, and Their Social Implications

Preface to the Special Issue on Genetics, DTC, and Their Social Implications

Kinship, Gender, and Ancient DNA

Decolonising an Irish Surname by Working the Hyphen of Gene-Ealogy

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