Identity porosity in the Portuguese-speaking Hindu diaspora: some reflections on syncretic work
Abstract
While believing that the anthropological reflection on notions such as hybridity, creolization, syncretism, etc.continues to be valuable, I will subscribe Peter Van de Veer's insight, according to which such concepts become far
more interesting when they are mobilised, reinterpreted, or reassessed through the discourses conveyed by social
actors in actual historic contexts. It is in this sense that I will analyse a number of identity narratives presented
by Portuguese-speaking Hindus in the definition and negotiation of the limits of their identity, as well as in the
evaluation of their degree of permeability, fluidity, incorporation, and mixture towards those who, during a
multiphased and multifaceted migratory experience, they configure as «others».
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