Time In The Black Experience Essay
Time in the Black
Experience
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History and Hunger in West Africa: Food Production …show more content…
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161
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11 Time in the African Diaspora: The Gullah Experience
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199
Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors
213
225
231
Figures and Tables
FIGURES
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
Cosmological Time
Main Stages of Vital Time
Kongo Hourly Time Segmentation System
Luzingw. Time Scroll
23
25
29
32
TABLES
3.1
4.1
4.2
4.3
4.4
4.5
Meal Times
Asante Day Names
Day Names and Their Attributes
The Asante Calendar
The Fante Calendar
The Asante Adaduanan (40-Day) Calendar:
November 8-December 20,1991
5.1 Seasons in Selected West African
Linguistic/Ethnic Groups
47
60
61
64
65
68
87
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Acknowledgments
I am indebted to a number of individuals without whose support and assistance this volume would not have been a reality. To Peter OseiKwame, with whom I explored initial ideas and formulations on time in
Asante as a panel topic for the African Studies Association meeting of
1985; to my old friend Said S. Samatar, who, several years later, assured me of the viability of the topic as an edited volume; to my colleague
Experience
Recent Titles in
Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies
Religion and Suicide in the African-American Community
Kevin E. Early
State against Development: The Experience of Post-1965 Zaire
Mondonga M. Mokoli
Dusky Maidens: The Odyssey of the Early Black Dramatic Actress
Jo A. Tanner
Language and Literature in the African American Imagination
Carol Aisha Blackshire-Belay, editor
Visible Ellison: A Study of Ralph Ellison 's Fiction
Edith Schor
The Early Black Press in America, 1827 to 1860
Frankie Button
The Black Laws in the Old Northwest: A Documentary History
Stephen Middleton
The African Aesthetic: Keeper of the Traditions
Kariamu Welsh-Asante, editor
History and Hunger in West Africa: Food Production …show more content…
Bilby
141
9
Jamaican Maroons: Time and Historical Identity
Joseph K. Adjaye
161
10 Early African-American Attitudes toward Time and Work
Mechal Sobel
183
11 Time in the African Diaspora: The Gullah Experience
Joseph E. Holloway
199
Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors
213
225
231
Figures and Tables
FIGURES
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
Cosmological Time
Main Stages of Vital Time
Kongo Hourly Time Segmentation System
Luzingw. Time Scroll
23
25
29
32
TABLES
3.1
4.1
4.2
4.3
4.4
4.5
Meal Times
Asante Day Names
Day Names and Their Attributes
The Asante Calendar
The Fante Calendar
The Asante Adaduanan (40-Day) Calendar:
November 8-December 20,1991
5.1 Seasons in Selected West African
Linguistic/Ethnic Groups
47
60
61
64
65
68
87
This page intentionally left blank
Acknowledgments
I am indebted to a number of individuals without whose support and assistance this volume would not have been a reality. To Peter OseiKwame, with whom I explored initial ideas and formulations on time in
Asante as a panel topic for the African Studies Association meeting of
1985; to my old friend Said S. Samatar, who, several years later, assured me of the viability of the topic as an edited volume; to my colleague