Genetic Afterlives - Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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
 

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Noah Tamarkin is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University and Research Associate at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research.

Zusammenfassung

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

• Autoren: Noah Tamarkin
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781478009689
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-0968-9
• Seiten: 277
• Serie: Theory in Forms
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Ethnologie > Völkerkunde; Südafrika, Afrikanische Geschichte, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, Archaeology / Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General, HISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa