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Author D'Alisera, JoAnn

Title An imagined geography : Sierra Leonean Muslims in America / JoAnn D'Alisera
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (181 pages) : illustrations
Series Contemporary ethnography
Contemporary ethnography.
Contents 1. Multiple Sites/Virtual Sitings: Ethnography in Transnational Contexts -- 2. Field of Dreams: The Anthropologist Far Away at Home -- 3. Icons of Longing: Homeland and Memory -- 4. Spiritual Centers, Peripheral Identities: On the Sacred Border of American Islam -- 5. I [heart] Islam: Popular Religious Commodities and Sites of Inscription -- 6. Mapping Women's Displacement and Difference -- 7. "We Owe Our Children the Pride": The Imagined Geography of a Muslim Homeland
Summary In An Imagined Geography, anthropologist JoAnn D'Alisera demonstrates persuasively that the long-held anthropological paradigms of separate, bounded, and unique communities, geographically located and neatly localized, must be reconsidered in light of the range and diversity of the Sierra Leonean diaspora
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-171) and index
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Subject Sierra Leonean Americans -- Washington (D.C.) -- Social conditions
Sierra Leonean Americans -- Washington (D.C.) -- Ethnic identity
Muslims -- Washington (D.C.) -- Social conditions
Immigrants -- Washington (D.C.) -- Social conditions
Transnationalism.
African diaspora.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
African diaspora
Ethnic relations
Immigrants -- Social conditions
Muslims -- Social conditions
Social conditions
Transnationalism
Einwanderung
Muslim
Musulmans -- Conditions sociales -- États-Unis.
Immigrés -- Sierra Leone -- Conditions sociales.
Washington (D.C.) -- Relations interethniques.
SUBJECT Washington (D.C.) -- Ethnic relations
Washington (D.C.) -- Social conditions
Subject Washington (D.C.)
Sierra Leone
USA
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812201727
0812201728