Night Comes to the Chromosomes
Inbreeding and Population Genetics in Southern Appalachia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6013179 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert B Tincher (University of Kentucky, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 27-49 |
| Publication date | 1980-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Central Issues in Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0739-7917 • E-ISSN: 1937-6227 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/cia.1980.2.1.27 |
| OpenAlex | W2019298832 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 18 |
Assimptions about the prevalence of inbreeding in Appalachia have long been used to account for certain characteristics of the mountain people and their culture. Such premises continue to be accepted as valid explanations even though little quantitative evidence has ever been presented on the subject. Inbreeding has become part of the popular stereotyped image of Appalachia, and has even been used to imply that mountain people are inherently to blame for their disadvantage! political and economic situation. This article presents a less speculative view of consanguineous marriage in Appalachia, based on the author's fieldwork, in which rates of isonymy (marriage between persons with the same surname) were used to estimate levels of inbreeding in a remote four‐county area of Eastern Kentucky over a 140‐year time period. The findings, along with data from previous studies of marriage patterns in mountain communities, suggest that inbreeding levels in Appalachia do not seem extreme enough to justify labeling inbreeding as unique or particularly common to the region, when compared with those reported for populations elsewhere or at earlier periods in American history
Appalachia · Biology · Blame · Consanguinity · Genealogy · Geography · Inbreeding · Population · Sociology · Demography · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research · Psychology · Social Psychology · Genetics
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Coefficients of Inbreeding and Relationship
A Geographic Analysis of White-Negro-Indian Racial Mixtures in Eastern United States
Inbreeding, marital movement, and genetic isolation of a rural Appalachian population
Secular trends in genetic structure
Inbreeding as measured by isonymy and by pedigrees in Kippel, Switzerland
Reduction of variability in an inbred population
The Melungeons
Little Smoky Ridge
The Physical Anthropology and Genetics of Marginal People of the Southeastern United States1
Social Class, Intermarriage, and Church Membership in a Kentucky Community
| Citations per year | 0.04 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1980 - 1982 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |