LEADER 04556nam 22005175 450 001 9910162752303321 005 20190920094934.0 010 $a0-520-96064-5 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520960640 035 $a(CKB)3710000001043864 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4305549 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001740213 035 $a(DE-B1597)520342 035 $a(OCoLC)952139276 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520960640 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001043864 100 $a20190920d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aUnorthodox Kin $ePortuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging /$fNaomi Leite 210 1$aBerkeley, CA : $cUniversity of California Press, $d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (343 pages) 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2017. 311 $a0-520-28505-0 311 $a0-520-28504-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface and Acknowledgments -- $tA Note on Translation and Terminology -- $tIntroduction: An Ethnography of Affinities -- $t1. Hidden Within, Imported from Without: A Social Category through Time -- $t2. Essentially Jewish: Body, Soul, Self -- $t3. Outsider, In-Between: Becoming Marranos -- $t4. "My Lost Brothers and Sisters!": Tourism and Cultural Logics of Kinship -- $t5. From Ancestors to Affection: Making Connections, Making Kin -- $tConclusion: Strangers, Kin, and the Global Search for Belonging -- $tNotes -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aHow are local understandings of identity, relatedness, and belonging transformed in a global era? How does international tourism affect possibilities for who one can become? In urban Portugal today, hundreds of individuals trace their ancestry to 15th century Jews forcibly converted to Catholicism, and many now seek to rejoin the Jewish people as a whole. For the most part, however, these self-titled Marranos ("hidden Jews") lack any direct experience of Jews or Judaism, and Portugal's tiny, tightly knit Jewish community offers no clear path of entry. According to Jewish law, to be recognized as a Jew one must be born to a Jewish mother or pursue religious conversion, an anathema to those who feel their ancestors' Judaism was cruelly stolen from them. After centuries of familial Catholicism, and having been refused inclusion locally, how will these self-declared ancestral Jews find belonging among "the Jewish family," writ large? How, that is, can people rejected as strangers face-to-face become members of a global imagined community - not only rhetorically, but experientially? Leite addresses this question through intimate portraits of the lives and experiences of a network of urban Marranos who sought contact with foreign Jewish tourists and outreach workers as a means of gaining educational and moral support in their quest. Exploring mutual imaginings and direct encounters between Marranos, Portuguese Jews, and foreign Jewish visitors, Unorthodox Kin deftly tracks how visions of self and kin evolve over time and across social spaces, ending in an unexpected path to belonging. In the process, the analysis weaves together a diverse set of current anthropological themes, from intersubjectivity to international tourism, class structures to the construction of identity, cultural logics of relatedness to transcultural communication. A compelling evocation of how ideas of ancestry shape the present, how feelings of kinship arise among far-flung strangers, and how some find mystical connection in a world said to be disenchanted, Unorthodox Kin will appeal to a wide audience interested in anthropology, sociology, Jewish studies, and religious studies. Its accessible, narrative-driven style makes it especially well suited for introductory and advanced courses in general cultural anthropology, ethnography, theories of identity and social categorization, and the study of globalization, kinship, tourism, and religion. 606 $aKinship$vCross-cultural studies 606 $aEthnology$xPhilosophy 607 $aPortugal$xKinship 607 $aPortugal$xReligious life and customs 615 0$aKinship 615 0$aEthnology$xPhilosophy. 676 $a305.892/40469 700 $aLeite$b Naomi, $01249081 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910162752303321 996 $aUnorthodox Kin$92894761 997 $aUNINA