Time in the Black Experience
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Time in the Black Experience

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Time in the Black Experience

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
1994
Print ISBN
9780313291180
eBook ISBN
9780313031083
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Ethnic Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Figures and Tables
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. 1 Time in Africa and Its Diaspora: An Introduction
  5. 2 Ntangu-Tandu-Kolo: The Bantu-Kongo Concept of Time
  6. 3 Time, Language, and the Oral Tradition: An African Perspective
  7. 4 Time, Identity, and Historical Consciousness in Akan
  8. 5 Time and Culture among the Bamana/Mandinka and Dogon of Mali
  9. 6 Time and Labor in Colonial Africa: The Case of Kenya and Malawi
  10. 7 “Kafir Time”: Preindustrial Temporal Concepts and Labor Discipline in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Natal
  11. 8 Time and History among a Maroon People: The Aluku
  12. 9 Jamaican Maroons: Time and Historical Identity
  13. 10 Early African-American Attitudes toward Time and Work
  14. 11 Time in the African Diaspora: The Gullah Experience
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index
  17. About the Contributors