ISBN:
9780299303242
,
9780299303235
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 158 Seiten
,
11 Illustrationen, 1 Karte, 1 Plan
,
23 cm
Series Statement:
Folklore studies in a multicultural world
DDC:
305.89354073
Keywords:
Somalis / Cultural assimilation / United States
;
Somalis / United States / Social life and customs
;
Bantu-speaking peoples / Cultural assimilation / United States
;
Somali American teenagers
;
Refugees / Somalia
;
Teenage refugees / United States
;
Alltag, Brauchtum
;
Erwachsenwerden
;
Bantu
;
Alltag
;
Somalischer Flüchtling
;
Jugend
;
USA
;
USA
;
USA
;
Somalischer Flüchtling
;
Bantu
;
Jugend
;
Erwachsenwerden
;
Alltag
Abstract:
Explores how teens from southern Somalia, who spent much of their childhood in East African refugee camps, are adapting to resettlement in the American Midwest, negotiating two sets of cultural expectations, those of the resettled Somali Bantu community and those of the surrounding US culture
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : the Somali Bantu -- The new village : the construction of Somali Bantu identity in everyday life -- Attaining adulthood 1 : rites of passage in traditional African contexts -- Feminine and masculine on display : media consumption and gender models -- Attaining adulthood 2 : adolescence, identity, and FGC in diaspora -- No ritual left behind : schools and American rites of passage -- Celebrating adulthood : wedding ritual and the celebration of identity -- Identities in development : culture, gender, and life cycle in diaspora -- Afterword : from adolescence into adulthood
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-154) and index
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