عنوان

Time in the Black experience /

(Number (ISBN

0313031088

(Number (ISBN

9780313031083

Erroneous ISBN

0313291187

Erroneous ISBN

9780313291180

Number

b798948

Title Proper

Time in the Black experience /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Joseph K. Adjaye.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Westport, Conn. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Greenwood Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1994.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (viii, 233 pages).

Series Title

Contributions in Afro-American and African studies,

Volume Designation

no. 167

ISSN of Series

0069-9624 ;

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index.

Text of Note

Time in Africa and its diaspora : an introduction / Joseph K. Adjaye -- Ntangu-tandu-kolo : the Bantu-Kongo concept of time / K.K. Bunseki Fu-Kiau -- Time, language, and the oral tradition : an African perspective / Omari H. Kokole -- Time, identity, and historical consciousness in Akan / Joseph K. Adjaye -- Time and culture among the Bamana/Mandinka and Dogon of Mali / Kassim Koné -- Time and labor in colonial Africa : the case of Kenya and Malawi / Alamin Mazrui and Lupenga Mphande -- "Kafir time" : preindustrial temporal concepts and labor discipline in nineteenth-century colonial Natal / Keletso E. Atkins -- Time and history among a Maroon people : the Aluku / Kenneth M. Bilby -- Jamaican Maroons : time and historical identity / Joseph K. Adjaye -- Early African-American attitudes toward time and work / Mechal Sobel -- Time in the African diaspora : the Gullah experience / Joseph E. Holloway.

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Text of Note

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 p.

Text of Note

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

Greenwood eBooks

Title

Time in the Black experience.

International Standard Book Number

9780313291180

African Americans-- History.

African Americans-- Social life and customs.

Blacks-- History.

Blacks-- Social life and customs.

Time-- Social aspects-- Africa.

Time-- Social aspects-- America.

Africains-- Histoire.

African Americans-- Social life and customs.

African Americans.

Afro-amerikaner.

Blacks-- Social life and customs.

Blacks.

Negers.

Noirs américains-- Histoire.

Noirs-- Histoire.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Ethnic Studies-- African American Studies.

Sociale aspecten.

Svarta-- historia.

Temps-- Sociologie.

Tidsuppfattning.

Tijdsbeleving.

Time-- Social aspects.

Africa.

America.

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SOC-- 001000

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Class number

System Code

Adjaye, Joseph K.,1940-

Date of Transaction

20201207112721.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

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Electronic name

[Book]

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