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Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging

Book by Naomi Leite · 5 quotes · Anthropology, Emotions, Globalisation

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“Both commensality, the act of eating together, and the sharing of food are powerful means by which human beings create, express, and solidify feelings of mutual trust, intimacy, and kinship.”

Food Trust Eating Anthropology Kinship Commensality

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“This is a study of global interconnection, not only to the degree that the infrastructure and cultural flows of globalisation enable the kinds of imaginings and interactions I explore in the pages that follow, but equally in subjective perceptions of being connected to others, both far back in time and widely around the globe.”

Imagination Belonging Anthropology Globalisation

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“While imagination is a faculty of the individual, imaginaries - "shared, socially transmitted representational assemblages" of people, places, and events - are a collective resource, the sum total of available imagery and ideas circulating in media, advertising, literature, word of mouth, and the like.”

Imagination Anthropology Globalisation Imaginaries

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“What is empathy, after all, if not an act of concentrated emotional engagement? And is that emotional engagement, however briefly expressed, not a potential step toward a lasting bond?”

Empathy Emotions Anthropology Bond

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“In many cultural contexts, shared emotion is a potent medium through which people come to feel connected and, over time, to see one another as kin.”

People Culture Emotions Anthropology Kinship

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