Rakotonirina, Sarah (2025) 'Refusing the ancestry test: Malagasy Ethnic Identity and Genetic Testing.' The SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research, 16. pp. 1-7.
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Abstract
Through navigating personal and socio-political planes, this essay problematises the use of genetic testing in the Malagasy context, and in its invocation as a form of identity formulation that privileges scientific rationality over storied histories. Through considering the social roles of genetic data, this piece interrogates how DNA fails to acknowledge ethnic variation, ancestral histories and storied identify formulation in Madagascar.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Keywords: | Auto-ethnography, Madagascar, DNA, ethnicity, race, ancestry, identity |
| SOAS Departments & Centres: | SOAS Open Access Journals > The SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research |
| ISSN: | 25176226 |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00043296 |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Jan 2025 08:49 |
| URI: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/43296 |
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