Noah Tamarkin

Genetic Afterlives

Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

Noah Tamarkin illustrates how Lemba people in South Africa give their own meanings to the results of DNA tests that substantiated their ancestral connections to Jews and employ them to manage competing claims of Jewish ethnic and religious identity, African indigeneity, and South African citizenship.

Produktdetails

• Theory in Forms
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9781478009689
• ISBN-10: 1478009683
• Artikelnr.: 58355836

Autorenporträt

Noah Tamarkin

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Diaspora, Indigeneity, and Citizenship after DNA  1
1. Producing Lemba Archives, Becoming Genetic Jews  29
2. Genetic Diaspora  57
3. Postapartheid Citizenship and the Limits of Genetic Evidence  88
4. Ancestry, Ancestors, and Contested Kinship after DNA  120
5. Locating Lemba Heritage, Imagining Indigenous Futures  153
Epilogue. Afterlives of Research Subjects  187
Notes  197
References  223