Naomi Leite

Department of Anthropology and Sociology

Lecturer in Anthropology

Name:

Dr Naomi Leite

Email address:

nl15@soas.ac.uk

Telephone:

+44(0) 20 7898 4407

Address:

SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG

Building:

Russell Square: College Buildings

Office No:

590

Academic Support Hours:

Wednesday, 13.00-14.45

On Sabbatical:

On Research Leave - 2017/18

Biography

Naomi Leite, Lecturer in Social Anthropology, received her Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on identity and belonging, kinship and relatedness, individual and collective aspirations, and linkages between global interconnectivity, travel, and sociality. Her first book, Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging (University of California Press) was a finalist for the 2017 National Jewish Book Award. Her second book, the co-edited historical volume Taking Tourism Seriously: Edward Bruner and the Rise of Tourism Ethnography (Lexington/Rowman & Littlefield), is due out in late 2018.

Programmes Convened

• MA Anthropology of Travel and Tourism (2019)
• MA Anthropology of Travel and Tourism (not running 2018/19) (2018)
• MA Anthropology of Travel and Tourism with Intensive Language (not running 2018/19) (2018)
• MA Anthropology of Travel and Tourism with Intensive Language (not running 2018/19) (2019)

Modules Taught

• Anthropology of Globalisation
• Anthropology of Globalisation (PG)
• Anthropology of Travel and Tourism
• Directed Practical Study in the Anthropology of Tourism
• Independent Study Project in Social Anthropology
• Tourism and Travel: A Global Perspective

PhD Students supervised

• Anna Cohen, Ridley Road and Broadway Market: Food markets, social change, and the construction of community in Hackney’s ‘Urban Village’ (working title)
• Jade Lee, Women of the British Colonial Service: Contested Identities and Liminal Lives, 1936 – 1961

Authored Books

Leite, Naomi (2017) Unorthodox Kin: Portuguese Marranos and the Global Search for Belonging. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Articles

Leite, Naomi and Graburn, Nelson (2010) 'L'anthropologie pour étudier le tourisme'. Mondes du Tourisme, (1) 1, pp 17-29.

Leite, Naomi (2005) 'Travels to an Ancestral Past: On Diasporic Tourism, Embodied Memory, and Identity'. Antropologicas, (9), pp 273-302.

Graburn, Nelson and Leite, Naomi (2004) 'Comment. Looking Several Ways: Anthropology and Native Heritage in Alaska by James Clifford.'. Current Anthropology, (45) 1, pp 24-25.

Edited Books or Journals

Leite, Naomi and Castañeda, Quetzil E. and Adams, Kathleen M., (eds.), (2018) The Ethnography of Tourism: Edward Bruner and Beyond. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books / Rowman & Littlefield. (The Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society). [Forthcoming]

Book Chapters

Leite, Naomi (2014) 'Locating Imaginaries in the Anthropology of Tourism'. In: Salazar, Noel and Graburn, Nelson, (eds.), Tourism Imaginaries: Anthropological Approaches. Oxford: Berghahn, pp 260-278.

Leite, Naomi and Graburn, Nelson (2009) 'Anthropological Interventions in Tourism Studies'. In: Robinson, Mike and Jamal, Tazim, (eds.), The Sage Handbook of Tourism Studies. London: Sage, pp 35-64.

Leite, Naomi (2007) 'Materializing Absence: Tourists, Surrogates, and the Making of Jewish Portugal'. In: Robinson, Mike, (ed.), Things That Move: The Material World of Tourism and Travel. Leeds: Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University.

Book Reviews

Leite, Naomi (2012) 'Review of Thinking Through Tourism, ed. by Julie Scott and Tom Selwyn.'. Anthropos, (107) 2, pp 669-670.

Graburn, Nelson and Leite, Naomi (2006) 'Review of Contemporary Tourism: Diversity and Change, by Erik Cohen.'. Annals of Tourism Research, (33) 1, pp 269-271.

Other

Leite, Naomi and Swain, Margaret (2015) 'Anthropology of Tourism'.

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