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Wednesday, May 4, 2022

A Dangerous Obsession with Genealogy and Ancestry

Our Obsession with Ancestry Has Some Twisted Roots
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/09/our-obsession-with-ancestry-has-some-twisted-roots-maud-newton-ancestor-trouble
Harvard’s Maya Jasanoff notes:
From origin stories to blood-purity statutes, we have long enlisted genealogy to serve our own purposes.