Time in the Black Experience

Inbunden, Engelska, 1994

Del i serien Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets

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In the first book which deals entirely with the subject of time in Africa and the Black Diaspora, Adjaye presents ten critical case studies of selected communities in Africa, the Caribbean, and the American South. The essays cover a wide spectrum of manifestations of temporal experience, including cosmological and genealogical time, physical and ecological cycles, time and worldview, social rhythm, agricultural and industrial time, and historical processes and consciousness. The studies confirm the continuity of temporal experience among Africans from pre-colonial times, through the colonial period in Africa, across continents through slavery and Maroon societies, to present-day communities like the Gullah of the Sea Islands of South Carolina. The subject of time, now recognized to be relative rather than uniform, draws together evidence from a variety of disciplines, specifically history, linguistics, political science, anthropology, and philosophy.

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Utgivningsdatum:1994-05-25
Mått:156 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt:567 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780313291180

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JOSEPH K. ADJAYE is Associate Professor of History in the Black Studies and History Departments of the University of Pittsburgh. His earlier book, Diplomacy and Diplomats in Nineteenth-Century Asante (1984), won the Choice book award.

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FiguresAcknowledgmentsTime in Africa and its Diaspora: An Introduction by Joseph K. Adjaye'Ntangu-Tandu-Kolo: The Bantu-Kôngo Concept of Time by K.K. Bunseki Fu-KiauTime, Language, and the Oral Tradition: An African Perspective by Omari H. KokoleTime, Identity and Historical Consciousness in Akan by Joseph K. AdjayeTime and Culture among the Bamana/Mandinka and Dogon of Mali by Kassim KonéTime and Labor in Colonial Africa: The Case of Kenya and Malawi by Alamin Mazrui and Lupenga Mphande'Kafir' Time': Preindustrial Temporal Concepts and Labour Discipline in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Natal by Keletso E. AtkinsTime and History among a Maroon People: The Aluku by Kenneth M. BilbyJamaican Maroons: Time and Historical Identity by Joseph K. AdjayeEarly African-American Attitudes towards Time and Work by Mechal SobelTime in the African Diaspora: The Gullah Experience by Joseph E. HollowaySelect Bibliography