This volume presents a cultural history of Alex Haley's Roots as a case study in 'operational acts of identification.
' It examines the strategy and tactics Haley employed in developing a family origin story into an acclaimed national history.
Where cultural studies scholars have critiqued notions of sacrosanct 'rootedness, ' this book shows the fruit of critically identifying those claims.
It reframes the concept of 'roots' as a theoretical vocabulary and grammar for the anthropology of scriptur.
Equinox Publishing (indonesia) Identifying roots: alex haley and the anthropology of scriptures, paperback/richard newton
