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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 Leone...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: D'Alisera, JoAnn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2004.
Colección:Contemporary ethnography.
Temas:
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.
Américains d'origine sierra-léonaise > Washington (D.C.) > Conditions sociales.
Américains d'origine sierra-léonaise > Identité ethnique > Washington (D.C.)
Musulmans > Washington (D.C.) > Conditions sociales.
Transnationalisme.
Africains > Pays étrangers.
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.
Washington (D.C.) > Ethnic relations.
Washington (D.C.) > Social conditions.
Washington (D.C.)
Sierra Leone
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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