Family history puts flesh on the bones of genealogy.

The Tomb disburd’ning, whence the Ghoſt aroſe Of great Achilles; Such when Thracian Foes (The Prelude of thy Fates, Troy!) he o’rethrew, And the white hair’d Neptunian Cycnus [i.e., Neptune’s son] ſlew.

Among the ancient sites in the Taklamakan Desert which are frequented by Khotan treasure seekers, and which the prospecting parties sent out by me had visited, none seemed to offer better opportunities for systematic excavations than the one known to them as Dandan-Uilik.

Along with sociologists and psychoanalysts, linganths study identity and, more and more frequently, the process of identification (Smith 2010) – of identifying with someone or as this or that (Kulick 2009).