About those Ancestry dot com commercials
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84LnTrQ2us8] In the fall 2017 quarter I kicked off my intro to cultural anthropology course with one of those Ancestry dot com videos. These are all over the place, and many of them carry the same basic theme. They all purport to tell people about their ‘family’ or ‘roots’ or ‘heritage.’ That’s fine, except …