Time in the Black Experience (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313291180)

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.

Author: Joseph K. Adjaye
ISBN-10: 0313291187
ISBN-13: 9780313291180
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 05/25/1994
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.41w x 0.95d