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Daniel Foor's Ancestral Medicine mentioned in New Yorker article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/09/our-obsession-with-ancestry-has-some-twisted-roots-maud-newton-ancestor-trouble


--- Quote ---As genealogy in the twenty-first century increasingly became the province of science and corporate laboratories, Newton’s own quest turned spiritual. She began to practice “ancestral lineage healing,” a New Age-style initiative informed by shamanism and other kinds of ancestor veneration, and her book delivers a heartfelt endorsement of its individual emotional and psychological rewards. This approach firmly rejects the quantitative logic of genetic tests, which reduces people to percentages. It’s revealing, however, that the term of art for the process is “ancestor work” (echoing the Mormon “temple work”), as opposed to, say, “ancestor worship.” As marketed by companies such as the North Carolina-based Ancestral Medicine, it shares the commercial apparatus of retreats, courses, trainings, and self-help books characteristic of today’s “wellness” and “mindfulness” movements. In the genetic-testing industry, customers pay to surrender their property; in this one, they pay to do the work.
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