Tribal Modern. Miriam Cooke

      Tribal concerns with pure blood in the Gulf parallel developments in South Africa, with new demands to draw “unequivocal lines of inclusion and exclusion, of inside and out. No wonder the commerce in recreational genomics, which turns out to be more than merely recreational when the stakes are large, is growing so quickly; the likes of DNA PRINT GENOMICS, DNA Tribes, and Ethnoancestors claim to have technologies that provide ‘hard’ scientific evidence of identity, evidence that puts the matter of membership beyond construction, debate, or question” (Comaroff and Comaroff 2009, 67).¹⁷