An Imagined Geography : Sierra Leonean Muslims in America.
Title:
An Imagined Geography : Sierra Leonean Muslims in America.
Author:
D'Alisera, JoAnn.
ISBN:
9780812201727
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (192 pages)
Series:
Contemporary Ethnography
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration -- 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 love 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 -- Notes -- References Cited -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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