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

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

1 " Belonging, after all, is a particular kind of relation, one that arises amidst subjective experiences of mutual connection. "

― , Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging

2 " From an anthropological perspective, identities are neither fixed nor inherent, but are created and reproduced continuously through social practice and in interaction with others. "

― , Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging

3 " 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. "

― , Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging

4 " Relatedness - whether imagined or lived out face-to-face - is a social fact, and it is not limited to "kinship" as mapped in the traditional genealogical chart. It is precisely the term's flexibility that makes it so analytically useful. "

― , Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging

5 " 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. "

― , Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging

6 " 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? "

― , Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging

7 " 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. "

― , Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging

8 " 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. "

― , Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging