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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456821103321

Titolo

The African Diaspora and the Disciplines [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Tejumola Olaniyan and James H. Sweet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-253-00133-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SweetJames H (James Hoke)

OlaniyanTejumola

Disciplina

909.0496

909/.0496

Soggetti

African diaspora - Study and teaching (Higher)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes conference papers.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One. Histories; 1. Clio and the Griot: The African Diaspora in the Disciplineof History; 2. African Diaspora and Anthropology; 3. How Genetics Can Provide Detail to the Transatlantic African Diaspora; 4. Landscapes and Places of Memory: African Diaspora Research and Geography; 5. African Diaspora in Archaeology; Part Two. Social Sciences; 6. Caribbean Sociology, Africa, and the African Diaspora; 7. African Diaspora and Political Science; 8. The African Diaspora and Philosophy; Part Three. Arts and Culture

9. "Function at the Junction"? African Diaspora Studies and Theater Studies10. Ethnomusicology and the African Diaspora; 11. Semioptics of Africana Art History; 12. Out of Context: Thinking Cultural Studies Diasporically; Part Four. Diaspora Contexts; 13. African Diaspora Studies in the Creole-Anglophone Caribbean: A Perspective from the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica; 14. South Africa's Elusive Quest for an African Identity:The Ironies of a South Africa-Led African Renaissance; 15. "Black Folk Here and There": Repositioning Other(ed)African Diaspora(s) in/and "Europe"

ContributorsIndex

Sommario/riassunto

Focusing on the problems and conflicts of doing African diaspora



research                from various disciplinary perspectives, these essays situate, describe, and reflect                on the current practice of diaspora scholarship. Tejumola Olaniyan, James H. Sweet,                and the international group of contributors assembled here seek to enlarge                understanding of how the diaspora is conceived and explore possibilities for the                future of its study. With the aim of initiating interdisciplinary dialogue on the                practice of African diaspor