Time in the Black experience / edited by Joseph K. Adjaye.

Other author Adjaye, Joseph K., 1940-
Format Book
Publication InfoWestport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994.
Descriptionviii, 233 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Black people--History.
African Americans--History.
Black people--Social life and customs.
African Americans--Social life and customs.
Time--Social aspects. --Africa.
Time--Social aspects. --America.

SeriesContributions in Afro-American and African studies ; no. 167
Contributions in Afro-American and African studies ; no. 167. ^A477074
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [213-224) and index.
LCCN 93035843
ISBN0313291187 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks CB235 .T56 1994 ✔ Available Place Hold