In Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa, Noah Tamarkin considers new ways to think about belonging that can acknowledge the importance of historical and sacred ties to land without valorizing autochthony, borders, or other technologies of exclusion.

Tamarkin will join a panel of anthropology professors from around the country to discuss his recently published book, which analyzes the Lemba people of South Africa and illustrates how they have given their own meanings to the results of DNA tests and employed them to manage competing claims of Jewish ethnic and religious identity, African indigeneity, and South African citizenship.

Noah Tamarkin, Author of Genetic Afterlives, Cornell UniversityYulia Egorova, Durham UniversityJonathan Marks, UNC CharlotteKaren-Sue Taussig, University of MinnesotaRayna Rapp, New York UniversityCasey Golomski, University of New HampshireJ. Lorand Matory, Duke UniversityKimberly Arkin, Boston UniversityJonathan Boyarin, Cornell UniversityModerator: Juno Parreñas, Cornell UniversityThis talk is part of Reimagining Citizenship, a speaker series by Cornell Migrations.

Co-sponsored by the Cornell Departments of Anthropology and Science & Technology Studies, Africana Studies & Research Center. Hosted by eCornell.