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almafu_9958352330202883
Format:
1 online resource (192 pages) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9780812201727
Series Statement:
Contemporary Ethnography
Content:
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.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Note on Transliteration --
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1. Multiple Sites/Virtual Sitings: Ethnography in Transnational Contexts --
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2. Field of Dreams: The Anthropologist Far Away at Home --
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3. Icons of Longing: Homeland and Memory --
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4. Spiritual Centers, Peripheral Identities: On the Sacred Border of American Islam --
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5. I ♥ Islam: Popular Religious Commodities and Sites of Inscription --
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6. Mapping Women's Displacement and Difference --
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7. "We Owe Our Children the Pride": The Imagined Geography of a Muslim Homeland --
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Notes --
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References Cited --
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Index --
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Acknowledgments.
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.9783/9780812201727
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812201727
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