I ♡ Islam

Popular Religious Commodities, Sites of Inscription, and Transnational Sierra Leonean Identity

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2390794
AutoresJoann D’alisera (Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas, autor correspondente)
Ano2001
Volume6
Fascículo1
Páginas91-110
Data de publicação2001-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Material Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/135918350100600105
OpenAlexW2126790504
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas17

This essay explores how and why Muslim Sierra Leoneans living and working in the Washington DC metropolitan area inscribe religious identity onto their work sites by means of a variety of Islamic commodities. These items, ranging from bumper stickers and decals to informational pamphlets and kosher hot dogs, are physical manifestations of experience, a means of situating individual and community in transnational space. Looking at how individuals use religious objects to make and maintain their worlds points to the act of display as a physical manifestation of experience. How such objects are utilized on, in, and around taxi cabs and food vending stands - my male and female informants' primary work sites - reveals the artistic creation of new sensitivities towards self and religion, highlighting the complexity of multiple gazes and responses in multi-cultural Muslim and broader non-Muslim spaces

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Identity (music · Islam · Linguistics · Media studies · Metropolitan area · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Variety (cybernetics · Work (physics · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Engineering · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Religious Tourism and Spaces