Reclaiming the ancestral past: Narrative, rhetoric and the “convict stain’

Journal of Sociology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 111-127

  Lambert, Ronald D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

convict stain; genealogists; memory workers; narratives; neutralization; rhetoric; sociology of memory; stigma

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039490150     PISSN: 14407833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/144078302128756534     Document Type: Article

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