Introduction: Diaspora, indigeneity, and citizenship after DNA -- Producing Lemba archives, becoming genetic Jews -- Genetic diaspora -- Postapartheid citizenship and the limits of genetic evidence -- Ancestry, ancestors, and contested kinship after DNA -- Locating Lemba heritag…
Introduction: Diaspora, indigeneity, and citizenship after DNA -- Producing Lemba archives, becoming genetic Jews -- Genetic diaspora -- Postapartheid citizenship and the limits of genetic evidence -- Ancestry, ancestors, and contested kinship after DNA -- Locating Lemba heritag…
Introduction: Diaspora, indigeneity, and citizenship after DNA -- Producing Lemba archives, becoming genetic Jews -- Genetic diaspora -- Postapartheid citizenship and the limits of genetic evidence -- Ancestry, ancestors, and contested kinship after DNA -- Locating Lemba heritag…
"GENETIC AFTERLIVES is an ethnography of how Lemba people in South Africa manage competing claims of Jewish ethnic and religious identity, African indigeneity, and South African citizenship. To ask who and what the Lemba people are is to cut to the central questions anthropologi…
"GENETIC AFTERLIVES is an ethnography of how Lemba people in South Africa manage competing claims of Jewish ethnic and religious identity, African indigeneity, and South African citizenship. To ask who and what the Lemba people are is to cut to the central questions anthropologi…
"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 Sou…
In 1997, M. E. R. Mathivha, an elder of the black Jewish Lemba people of South Africa, announced to the Lemba Cultural Association that a recent DNA study substantiated their ancestral connections to Jews. Lemba people subsequently leveraged their genetic test results to seek re…
"GENETIC AFTERLIVES is an ethnography of how Lemba people in South Africa manage competing claims of Jewish ethnic and religious identity, African indigeneity, and South African citizenship. To ask who and what the Lemba people are is to cut to the central questions anthropologi…
"GENETIC AFTERLIVES is an ethnography of how Lemba people in South Africa manage competing claims of Jewish ethnic and religious identity, African indigeneity, and South African citizenship. To ask who and what the Lemba people are is to cut to the central questions anthropologi…