New genealogy: It's not just for kinship anymore

Field Methods

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 129-154

  Quinlan, Robert J ^a   Hagen, Edward H ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Demography; Epidemiology; Population structure; Quantitative methods; Scientific ethnography

Indexed keywords

EID: 57749128103     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: 15523969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X07314034     Document Type: Article

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