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Identities in Practice draws a nuanced picture of how the experience of migration affects the process through which Sikhs in Finland and California negotiate their identities. What makes this study innovative with regard to the larger context of migration studies is the contrast it provides between experiences at two Sikh migration destinations. By using an ethnographic approach, Hirvi reveals how practices carried out in relation to work, dress, the life-cycle, as well as religious and cultural sites, constitute important moments in which Sikhs engage in the often transnational art of negotiating identities.
Laura Hirvi's rich ethnographic account brings to the fore how the construction of identities is a creative process that is conditioned and infiltrated by questions of power. Identities in Practice will appeal to scholars who are interested in the study of cultures, identities, migration, religion, and transnationalism.
This book is part of the Studia Fennica Ethnologica series.
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Keywords
- Biography & True Stories
- California
- Finland
- Gurdwara
- Helsinki
- Humanities
- Identity
- Immigrants
- India
- Language
- Practice
- Sikh
- Sikhism
- Sikhs
- Society & Social Sciences
- thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics
- thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
- Turban
- Yuba City
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DOI: 10.21435/sfe.15web: http://oa.finlit.fi/site/books/10.21435/sfe.15/
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