Race, Genealogy, and the Genomic Archive in Post-apartheid South Africa

IF 1 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Social Analysis Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI:10.3167/sa.2021.650403

K. Schramm

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Abstract

From the early 2000s onward, scientists, politicians, and intellectuals have presented the South African gene pool as a new archive for the new nation, suggesting a non-racial unity in diversity through common human origins. In this discourse, population genomics and genetic ancestry allude to metaphors of shared kinship to overcome the legacies of race. However, a focus on the underlying practices of measuring and classification reveals how the genomic archive is implicated in the history of apartheid and its racialized subjectivities. Similarly, individual interpretations of genetic ancestry show that race is constantly brought forth in this archival process. The genomic archive interweaves measuring practices in the sciences with the politics of social and biographical experience—a relationship that is at the heart of genetic genealogies.

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种族、家谱和后种族隔离时期南非的基因组档案

从21世纪初开始，科学家、政治家和知识分子就把南非基因库作为这个新国家的新档案，表明通过共同的人类起源，在多样性上实现了非种族的统一。在这个论述中，人口基因组学和遗传祖先暗示了共同的亲属关系的隐喻，以克服种族的遗产。然而，对测量和分类的基本实践的关注揭示了基因组档案如何与种族隔离历史及其种族化的主观性有关。同样，个人对遗传祖先的解释表明，种族在这一存档过程中不断出现。基因组档案将科学测量实践与社会政治和传记经验交织在一起，这种关系是基因谱系的核心。

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Social Analysis ANTHROPOLOGY-

CiteScore

2.20

自引率

7.10%

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审稿时长

16 weeks

期刊介绍： Social Analysis is an international peer-reviewed journal devoted to exploring the analytical potentials of anthropological research. It encourages contributions grounded in original empirical research that critically probe established paradigms of social and cultural analysis. The journal expresses the best that anthropology has to offer by exploring in original ways the relationship between ethnographic materials and theoretical insight. By forging creative and critical engagements with cultural, political, and social processes, it also opens new avenues of communication between anthropology and the humanities as well as other social sciences. The journal publishes four issues per year, including regular Special Issues on particular themes. The Editors welcome individual articles that focus on diverse topics and regions, reflect varied theoretical approaches and methods, and aim to appeal widely within anthropology and beyond. Proposals for Special Issues are selected by the Editorial Board through an annual competitive call.