Anthropology and Genealogy - Friends and Relations

This is not easy. I am faced with a number of people who are totally engrossed in their hobby, or maybe even vocation, and asked to talk about the relationship between my calling - Anthropology - and theirs - Genealogy. It is a bit like being asked to talk about the relationship between science and religion - or, perhaps, as my mother enquired when I advised her that I would be shifting my major from Economics to Anthropology, "What can you do with it, dear?"
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