The Family Historian and Temporal Orientations Towards the Ancestral Past

Time & Society

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 115-143

  Lambert, Ronald D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

family culture; family historian role; family history; genealogy; temporal orientations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039930635     PISSN: 0961463X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0961463X96005002001     Document Type: Article

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