Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Time in the Black Experience (Contributions in Afro-American & African Studies)

Joseph K. Adjaye

0/5 ( ratings)

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.

Pages: 248

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Praeger

Release: May 25, 1994

Time in the Black Experience (Contributions in Afro-American & African Studies)

Joseph K. Adjaye

0/5 ( ratings)

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.

Pages: 248

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Praeger

Release: May 25, 1994

More books from Joseph K. Adjaye

African Security and the African Command: Viewpoints on the US Role in Africa

Diplomacy and Diplomats in 19th Century Asante: Melville J. Herskovits Finalists and Other Outstanding Academic Book

Rate this book!

Write a review?