Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa Tamarkin Noah
Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa Tamarkin Noah In 1997, M. E. R. Lemba people subsequently leveraged their genetic test results to seek recognition from the post-apartheid…
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Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa Tamarkin Noah
In 1997, M. E. R. Lemba people subsequently leveraged their genetic test results to seek recognition from the post-apartheid government as indigenous Africans with rights to traditional leadership and land, retheorizing genetic ancestry in the process. 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.
Tamarkin turns away from genetics researchers' results that defined a single story of Lemba peoples' "true" origins and toward Lemba understandings of their own genealogy as multivalent. Guided by In Genetic Afterlives, Noah Tamarkin illustrates how Lemba people give their own meanings to the results of DNA tests and employ them to manage competing claims of Jewish ethnic and religious identity, African indigeneity, and South African citizenship.
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