Remediating Viking Origins: Genetic Code as Archival Memory of the Remote Past
Remediating Viking Origins: Genetic Code as Archival Memory of the Remote Past
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修复维京起源：遗传密码作为遥远过去的档案记忆
作者：
M. Scully;Turi E. King;Steven D. Brown
本文介绍了Leverhulme信托基金资助的研究项目“移民对英国形成的影响：证据，记忆，发明”的一些早期数据。该计划的跨学科重点之一，其中包括遗传学，历史学，考古学，语言学和社会心理学的见解，是调查祖先的遗传证据如何被纳入身份叙述。特别是，我们研究如何“应用遗传史”形状的个人和家庭的叙事，然后位于宏观叙事的国家和移民和土著的集体记忆。有人认为，遗传证据的建设作为一个“黄金标准”的“你真的来自”涉及文化和档案记忆的补救，在建设一个“可用的过去”。这篇文章是基于最初的问卷调查数据，从那些参加DNA收集会议在北方英格兰的初步研究。报告提出了一些早期迹象，表明与会者认为作为维京海盗人后裔的重要性，注意到一些新出现的模式，并考虑了对当代关于移徙、归属以及地方和民族认同的辩论的影响。
This article introduces some early data from the Leverhulme Trust-funded research programme, ‘The Impact of the Diasporas on the Making of Britain: evidence, memories, inventions’. One of the interdisciplinary foci of the programme, which incorporates insights from genetics, history, archaeology, linguistics and social psychology, is to investigate how genetic evidence of ancestry is incorporated into identity narratives. In particular, we investigate how ‘applied genetic history’ shapes individual and familial narratives, which are then situated within macro-narratives of the nation and collective memories of immigration and indigenism. It is argued that the construction of genetic evidence as a ‘gold standard’ about ‘where you really come from’ involves a remediation of cultural and archival memory, in the construction of a ‘usable past’. This article is based on initial questionnaire data from a preliminary study of those attending DNA collection sessions in northern England. It presents some early indicators of the perceived importance of being of Viking descent among participants, notes some emerging patterns and considers the implications for contemporary debates on migration, belonging and local and national identity.