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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