03420oam 22005534a 450 991045682110332120210114060225.00-253-00133-1(CKB)2550000000040353(EBL)713672(OCoLC)735596398(SSID)ssj0000533813(PQKBManifestationID)11319020(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000533813(PQKBWorkID)10493395(PQKB)10719903(OCoLC)753560211(MdBmJHUP)muse1873(MiAaPQ)EBC713672(EXLCZ)99255000000004035320091016d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe African Diaspora and the Disciplines[electronic resource] /edited by Tejumola Olaniyan and James H. SweetBloomington Indiana University Press20101 online resource (376 p.)Includes conference papers.0-253-35464-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Culture9. "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"ContributorsIndexFocusing 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 diasporAfrican diasporaStudy and teaching (Higher)CongressesElectronic books. African diasporaStudy and teaching (Higher)909.0496909/.0496Sweet James H(James Hoke)50829Olaniyan Tejumola853264MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910456821103321The African Diaspora and the Disciplines1933316UNINA