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…
"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…
According to Mitchell, a "color-blind" post-racial world is neither achievable nor desirable. Against claims that race is an outmoded construct, he contends that race is not simply something to be seen but is a fundamental medium through which we experience human otherness. Race…
According to W.J.T. Mitchell, a "color-blind" post-racial world is neither achievable nor desirable. Against popular claims that race is an outmoded construct that distracts from more important issues, Mitchell contends that race remains essential to our understanding of social …
Main description: According to W.J.T. Mitchell, a 0color-blind0 post-racial world is neither achievable nor desirable. Against popular claims that race is an outmoded construct that distracts from more important issues, Mitchell contends that race remains essential to our unders…
"According to W.J.T. Mitchell, a "color-blind" post-racial world is neither achievable nor desirable. Against popular claims that race is an outmoded construct that distracts from more important issues, Mitchell contends that race remains essential to our understanding of social…
According to Mitchell, a "color-blind" post-racial world is neither achievable nor desirable. Against claims that race is an outmoded construct, he contends that race is not simply something to be seen but is a fundamental medium through which we experience human otherness. Race…
Derived from the Latin abiectus, literally meaning "thrown or cast down," "abjection" names the condition of being servile, wretched, or contemptible. In Western religious tradition, to be abject is to submit to bodily suffering or psychological mortification for the good of the…
"Archetypes of race loom large within the Western imagination. The Black population, in particular, has often been pictured as inherently disordered, and their presence thought to have a disordering effect--indeed, their presence has been seen as a threat to civilized society. I…