Time in the Black Experience

Joseph K. Adjaye (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

1994
Praeger Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-0-313-29118-0 (ISBN)

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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.

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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Acknowledgments
Time 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-Kiau
Time, Language, and the Oral Tradition: An African Perspective by Omari H. Kokole
Time, Identity and Historical Consciousness in Akan by Joseph K. Adjaye
Time and Culture among the Bamana/Mandinka and Dogon of Mali by Kassim Koné
Time 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. Atkins
Time and History among a Maroon People: The Aluku by Kenneth M. Bilby
Jamaican Maroons: Time and Historical Identity by Joseph K. Adjaye
Early African-American Attitudes towards Time and Work by Mechal Sobel
Time in the African Diaspora: The Gullah Experience by Joseph E. Holloway
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Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.5.1994
Reihe/Serie	Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften ► Chronologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-313-29118-7 / 0313291187
ISBN-13	978-0-313-29118-0 / 9780313291180
Zustand	Neuware