“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.” ImaginationBelongingAnthropologyGlobalisation Book:Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging Source: Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging
“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.” ImaginationAnthropologyGlobalisationImaginaries Book:Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging Source: Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging