Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa

by Noah Tamarkin

Book Overview

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 recognition from the post-apartheid government as indigenous Africans with rights to traditional leadership and land, retheorizing genetic ancestry in the process. In Genetic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478009683
• ISBN13: 9781478009689
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"