Time in the Black Experience - Couverture rigide

Adjaye, Joseph K.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0313291187 ISBN 13 : 9780313291180

Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 1994

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Praeger Publishers Inc
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0313291187
• ISBN 13: 9780313291180
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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