Joseph K. Adjaye

Time in the Black Experience (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 1994
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313031083
• Artikelnr.: 37808960

Autorenporträt

Joseph K. Adjaye is Associate Professor of History in the Black Studies and History Departments of the University of Pittsburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

Figures 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 Select Bibliography