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Elyse Wien's avatar

This is fantastic, thank you! I wrote a piece a bit back called "the Myth of the Indigenous," about us de-historicizing people prior to somewhat arbitrary but politicized moments in history, from which I then tried to show some of the concrete demographic changes from the 19th century that points to no modern group being "indigenous" per se, as I don't quite think there's any good use for that term. I like your work here in showing more about how relationship to land and what we would now called identity groups were actually understood by historical participants. This makes me want to research more on this topic now, so thank you.

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משכיל בינה's avatar

Good article, but the fact is that whether they themselves believed this or not, modern genetics shows that Ben Tzvi's theory was basically correct: https://www.razibkhan.com/p/more-than-kin-less-than-kind-jews

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