The essential questions interview your family to uncover stories and bridge generations

Just as the oral histories of people around the world are disappearing amid rapid change, there is a risk that your family's personal stories, too, will be lost forever. In The Essential Questions, anthropologist Elizabeth Keating helps you to uncover the unique memories of your parents and grandpar...

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Main Author: Keating, Elizabeth Lillian (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: [New York, New York] : TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2022]
Edition:[Hardcover edition].
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505 0 |a The anthropology of family -- Tips on interviewing your family -- Questions to get some basic background -- Questions on space : learning about where your elders grew up -- Questions on time : connecting with the history of your family -- Questions on social interactions : the importance of everyday encounters -- Questions on becoming : rites of passage and how your elders were raised -- Questions on identity : the factors that made you who you are -- Questions on the body and adornment : an expression of how you see yourself and others -- Questions on belief : the ideas that shaped you and your family -- Questions on kinship and marriage : the making of a family -- Questions on material culture : your family's most treasured possessions -- Questions on fear : learning courage through fear -- Questions on memory : the things you'll never forget -- What do you wish people knew about you? -- Conclusion : How to avoid genealogical amnesia. 
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