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A Transnational Pig: Reconstituting Kinship Among Filipinos in Hong Kong

McKay

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Migration may offer Filipinos abroad new ways to practice religious faith and opportunities to extend social networks, but many must at the same time sustain and renegotiate kinship ties at home. The obligations of kinship can mean declarations of faith are not always what we may think. Rather than being the good converts or diligent congregation members of their self-descriptions, migrants may continue to be drawn into village ritual at home. The present paper aims to shows how an exchange-based approach to faith persists in the diaspora and enables migrants to renegotiate long-distance forms of kinship.

Publication Date Nov 24, 2010
Journal ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Print ISSN 1444-2213
Publisher Routledge
Pages 330 - 344
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2010.513400
Keywords Ifugao, Filipino Kinship, Faith, Philippines, Hong Kong
Publisher URL https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2010.513400

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