Some family the Mormons and how humanity keeps track of itself / [electronic resource] :
Donald Harman Akenson.
- Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2007
- 1 online resource (1 electronic text (x, 349 p. : ill.)) : digital file.
- Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection. .
Issued as part of the Canadian Electronic Library publishers collection.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. 1. Getting in touch. Yesterday's news -- What do the Mormons think ... ? -- The indomitable overcoming the inevitable -- pt. 2. The course of Adam. What's the plot? -- The grammars of genealogical ascent -- A big imperial engine? -- Resistance, submission, subversion -- pt. 3. The saints come marching. God's massive engine? -- Appendices. A. The poverty of terminology -- Inbreeding and incest -- False-paternity -- False-maternity -- Genetics as genealogical evidence.