Unorthodox kin Portuguese Marranos and the global search for belonging / Naomi Leite.
| Author/creator | Leite, Naomi, 1972- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: an ethnography of affinities -- Hidden within, imported from without: a social category through time -- Essentially Jewish: body, soul, self -- Outsider, in-between: becoming Marranos -- "My lost brothers and sisters!" tourism and cultural logics of kinship -- From ancestors to affection: making connections, making kin -- Conclusion: strangers, kin, and the global search for belonging. |
| Abstract | "Unorthodox Kin is a groundbreaking exploration of identity, relatedness, and belonging in the context of profound global interconnection. Naomi Leite tells the gripping story of Portugal's urban Marranos, who trace their ancestry to fifteenth-century Jews forced to convert to Catholicism, as they come to understand their place within the Jewish world. Focusing on the work of imagination and face-to-face encounters between urban Marranos and Jewish tourists and outreach workers, Leite deftly examines how perceptions of self, kinship, and belonging evolve across local and global social spaces. An ethnography of affinities, the book maps diverse contexts and criteria by which people come to identify with a particular social category, the forms of interaction that give rise to alienation or affiliation, and practices through which some are made strangers and others kin. Beautifully written and methodologically innovative, Unorthodox Kin is a model study for the anthropology of kinship, tourism, religion, and globalization."--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Leite, Naomi, 1972- author. Unorthodox kin Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] 9780520285040 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016028590 |
| ISBN | 9780520960640 (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |