Genetics, History, and Identity: The Case of the Bene Israel and the Lemba Export

@article{Parfitt2005a, abstract = {The paper examines the impact of genetic research on the religious identity of the Bene Israel Indian Jewish community and the Lemba Judaising group of southern Africa. It demonstrates how DNA tests which happened to support the possibility of the communities' legends of origin affected their self-perception, the way they are viewed by their neighbors, and their image in the West. It is argued that in both cases what accounted most for the Bene Israel and Lemba responses to the tests was the way the results were portrayed in the mass media, the history of the development of Judaism in their communities, and the local realities.}, author = {Parfitt, Tudor and Egorova, Yulia}, citeulike-article-id = {1416537}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11013-005-7425-4}, doi = {10.1007/s11013-005-7425-4}, journal = {Culture Medicine and Psychiatry}, keywords = {africa, bene-israel, bioethics, jewish, lemba, media, population-origins, race, self-perception}, number = {2}, pages = {193--224}, posted-at = {2007-06-27 16:20:52}, priority = {0}, title = {Genetics, History, and Identity: The Case of the Bene Israel and the Lemba}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11013-005-7425-4}, volume = {29}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - Parfitt2005a L3 - citeulike-article-id:1416537 N2 - The paper examines the impact of genetic research on the religious identity of the Bene Israel Indian Jewish community and the Lemba Judaising group of southern Africa. It demonstrates how DNA tests which happened to support the possibility of the communities' legends of origin affected their self-perception, the way they are viewed by their neighbors, and their image in the West. It is argued that in both cases what accounted most for the Bene Israel and Lemba responses to the tests was the way the results were portrayed in the mass media, the history of the development of Judaism in their communities, and the local realities. IS - 2 JF - Culture Medicine and Psychiatry EP - 224 TI - Genetics, History, and Identity: The Case of the Bene Israel and the Lemba VL - 29 SP - 193 KW - africa KW - bene-israel KW - bioethics KW - jewish KW - lemba KW - media KW - population-origins KW - race KW - self-perception AU - Parfitt, Tudor AU - Egorova, Yulia PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11013-005-7425-4 ER -