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Who Do You Think You Are?: Intimate Pasts Made Public
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 34, Number 1, Winter 2011
- pp. 108-118
- 10.1353/bio.2011.0015
- Article
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Abstract
The hugely successful BBC television series Who Do You Think You Are?™ follows celebrities tracing their family trees as part of a journey of self discovery in a format described here as “biogravision.” The show’s popularity runs in parallel with the rise in genealogy made possible by digital archives. What impact has this had on modes of self-narration and the move between private and public histories?
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