Packet 9: Tossup 13

Donald Lines Jacobus, who wrote that this field has become “truly democratic” in America, scrutinized inaccuracies in sources like Virkus’s Compendium. “One-place studies” in this field may examine clusters and collaterals. Karin Wulf’s 2025 book on this field in British America describes how its data reified the doctrine of partus sequitur ventrem and how it was diagrammed by John Speed in the King James Bible. (10[1])A “yearbook” in this field was catalogued by the Almanach de Gotha (10[1])(“GO-tah”). Knowledge of this field is recited selectively in tātai hikohiko, (10[1])a Māori approach to whakapapa (10[1]-5[1])(“FAH-ka-pa-pa”). The LDS Church (10[2])runs 4,600 (10[1])centers (10[4])with records in this field, (10[7])whose scholars (10[2])research (10[1])celebrities on a PBS show (10[1])hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (10[1])For 10 points, a philosophical method used by Nietzsche and Foucault is named for what field that produces family trees? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: genealogy [or word forms of genealogies or genealogical; accept family history, family histories, family research, or heritage science; accept ancestry or lineage; accept genealogical method or genetic genealogy; prompt on genetics, heredity, inheritance, kinship, or word forms of any] (Jacobus wrote Genealogy As Pastime and Profession. Wulf wrote Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America. Gates is the host of Finding Your Roots.)
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