Unorthodox Kin : Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging /

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"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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leite, Naomi, 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ethnologie > Philosophie.
Parente > Études transculturelles.
Kinship.
Ethnology > Philosophy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Kinship > Cross-cultural studies.
Portugal.
Portugal > Religious life and customs.
Portugal > Kinship.
Cross-cultural studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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