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Time in the Black Experience
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Edited by Joseph K. Adjaye
ISBN: 0-313-29118-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-29118-0
248 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 5/30/1994
List Price: $117.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
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Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Series Title: Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies
Series Number: 167
Reviews:
  • This book contributes to what should be a central thematic and methodological issue in African and African Diaspora studies...That topic is time.
    —
    International Journal of African Historical Studies
Description: 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.
Table of Contents:
  • 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
LC Card Number: 93-35843
LCC Class: CB235
Dewey Class: 305.896
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