Table of Contents

Introduction – The impact of diasporas: markers of identity 1. In the blood: the myth and reality of genetic markers of identity 2. Becoming a Viking: DNA testing, genetic ancestry and placeholder identity 3. Ancient objects with modern meanings: museums, volunteers, and the Anglo-Saxon ‘Staffordshire Hoard’ as a marker of twenty-first century regional identity 4. One of us? Negotiating multiple legal identities across the Viking diaspora 5. Shifting markers of identity in East London’s diasporic religious spaces 6. Markers of identity in Martinique: being French, black, Creole 7. Everyday statelessness in Italy: status, rights, and camps 8. Tracing diasporic identifications in Africa’s urban landscapes: evidence from Lusaka and Kampala 9. On the threshold of statelessness: Palestinian narratives of loss and erasure

About the Author

Joanna Story is Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Leicester, UK.

Iain Walker is an Associate Member of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany.