Noah Tamarkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 200342 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noah Tamarkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noah |
| FAMILY NAME | Tamarkin |
| SIGNATURE | TAMARKIN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Comparative Studies, The Ohio State UniversityWits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the WitwatersrandColumbus, Ohio 43202USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Forensic DNA Databases and the Emergence of Carceral Human Rights in South Africa
This article considers changing discourses of the risks of having or not having a national DNA database at a moment of global expansion of these technologies in the postcolonial global South. It focuses on debates about South African’s National Forensic DNA Database from 2009 to 2023. It introduces the concept of carceral human rights to analyse shifts in DNA database debates and how those shifts have changed how human rights are imagined and who…
Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa
Forensics and fortification in South African self-captivity
This essay considers how residential security and forensic genetics in South Africa open ways to think about captivity as something that the relatively privileged embrace to delineate a safe inside from a threatening outside. Captivity functions here as a means to entrench privilege and guarantee its protection
Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017
This essay reviews work produced in predominantly US cultural anthropology publications throughout 2017. It asks: What makes an anthropological inquiry timely, what sorts of relationalities command anthropological attention, and to what end? Noting our ongoing methodological commitment to long-term ethnography alongside increasingly important online forums for reaching broader publics and responding quickly to emerging issues, it expands the rang…
The Jewish Phenomenon in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Politics of Contradictory Discourses, written by Marla Brettschneider
Genetic Diaspora: Producing Knowledge of Genes and Jews in Rural South Africa
After Lemba South Africans participated in genetic tests that aimed to demonstrate their ancient links to contemporary Jewish populations, American Jews began to visit the Lemba to connect with them on the basis of an assumed shared Judaism. Some Lemba people welcomed and endorsed these visits, but they also maintained their own ideas about the meaning of their "genetic Jewishness" and the terms of their new diasporic relationships, which often c…
Religion as Race, Recognition as Democracy: Lemba “Black Jews” in South Africa
Apartheid South Africa enacted physical, structural, and symbolic forms of violence on racially marked South Africans, and postapartheid South Africa has enacted ambitious-though also limited-laws, policies, and processes to address past injustices. In this article, the author traces the South African political histories of one self-defined group, the Lemba, to understand how the violence they collectively experienced when the apartheid state did…
Genetic Diaspora: Producing Knowledge of Genes and Jews in Rural South Africa
After Lemba South Africans participated in genetic tests that aimed to demonstrate their ancient links to contemporary Jewish populations, American Jews began to visit the Lemba to connect with them on the basis of an assumed shared Judaism. Some Lemba people welcomed and endorsed these visits, but they also maintained their own ideas about the meaning of their "genetic Jewishness" and the terms of their new diasporic relationships, which often c…
Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017
This essay reviews work produced in predominantly US cultural anthropology publications throughout 2017. It asks: What makes an anthropological inquiry timely, what sorts of relationalities command anthropological attention, and to what end? Noting our ongoing methodological commitment to long-term ethnography alongside increasingly important online forums for reaching broader publics and responding quickly to emerging issues, it expands the rang…
Forensics and fortification in South African self-captivity
This essay considers how residential security and forensic genetics in South Africa open ways to think about captivity as something that the relatively privileged embrace to delineate a safe inside from a threatening outside. Captivity functions here as a means to entrench privilege and guarantee its protection
Religion as Race, Recognition as Democracy: Lemba “Black Jews” in South Africa
Apartheid South Africa enacted physical, structural, and symbolic forms of violence on racially marked South Africans, and postapartheid South Africa has enacted ambitious-though also limited-laws, policies, and processes to address past injustices. In this article, the author traces the South African political histories of one self-defined group, the Lemba, to understand how the violence they collectively experienced when the apartheid state did…
Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa
Religion as Race, Recognition as Democracy: Lemba “Black Jews” in South Africa
Apartheid South Africa enacted physical, structural, and symbolic forms of violence on racially marked South Africans, and postapartheid South Africa has enacted ambitious-though also limited-laws, policies, and processes to address past injustices. In this article, the author traces the South African political histories of one self-defined group, the Lemba, to understand how the violence they collectively experienced when the apartheid state did…
Genetic Diaspora: Producing Knowledge of Genes and Jews in Rural South Africa
After Lemba South Africans participated in genetic tests that aimed to demonstrate their ancient links to contemporary Jewish populations, American Jews began to visit the Lemba to connect with them on the basis of an assumed shared Judaism. Some Lemba people welcomed and endorsed these visits, but they also maintained their own ideas about the meaning of their "genetic Jewishness" and the terms of their new diasporic relationships, which often c…
The Jewish Phenomenon in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Politics of Contradictory Discourses, written by Marla Brettschneider
Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017
This essay reviews work produced in predominantly US cultural anthropology publications throughout 2017. It asks: What makes an anthropological inquiry timely, what sorts of relationalities command anthropological attention, and to what end? Noting our ongoing methodological commitment to long-term ethnography alongside increasingly important online forums for reaching broader publics and responding quickly to emerging issues, it expands the rang…
Forensics and fortification in South African self-captivity
This essay considers how residential security and forensic genetics in South Africa open ways to think about captivity as something that the relatively privileged embrace to delineate a safe inside from a threatening outside. Captivity functions here as a means to entrench privilege and guarantee its protection
Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa
Forensic DNA Databases and the Emergence of Carceral Human Rights in South Africa
This article considers changing discourses of the risks of having or not having a national DNA database at a moment of global expansion of these technologies in the postcolonial global South. It focuses on debates about South African’s National Forensic DNA Database from 2009 to 2023. It introduces the concept of carceral human rights to analyse shifts in DNA database debates and how those shifts have changed how human rights are imagined and who…
Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)