Author |
Jeffers, Chike, 1982-
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Series |
Suny series in living indigenous philosophies. |
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SUNY series in living indigenous philosophies.
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Subject |
Philosophy, African.
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Description |
1 online resource. |
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polychrome rdacc |
Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Note |
Print version record. |
Contents |
""Contents""; ""Foreword: A Historic First""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Notes""; ""Listening to Ourselves""; ""Dëgg ak ludul dëgg: Waxtaan diggante Soxna ak cà mmiñam Ngó³;³r ""; ""Truth and Untruth: A Conversation Between Soxna and Her Friend Ngó³;³r ""; ""The Ethiopian Conception of Time and Modernity""; ""Being and Time ""; ""The Ethiopian Situation ""; ""Cyclicality of Time ""; ""Time and Fate ""; ""From Cyclical Time to Teleological Time ""; ""Ethiopia and Modernity ""; ""Modernity and Renewal ""; ""Notes ""; ""The Ethiopian Conception of Time and Modernity"" |
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Being and TimeThe Ethiopian Situation -- Cyclicality of Time -- Time and Fate -- From Cyclical Time to Teleological Time -- Ethiopia and Modernity -- Modernity and Renewal -- Notes -- Ngero ok Rias: Kaka Puonj mar Ngero Chalo, Kendo Kaka Ngero Opogore gi Pimo Wach -- Wach M�Otelo -- Chuny Wach -- Tienge mag Ngero -- Ngeche ma yot -- Ngeche ma tek -- Notes -- A Proverb Never Lies: On the Nature of Proverbs and How They Differ from Propositions -- Introduction -- The Text -- Types of Proverbs -- Simple Proverbs -- Complex Proverbs -- Notes |
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Ang�o Man e Nying�? Okange Ang�wen Mag Nyinge e Oganda LuoWach Mokwongo -- Awendo Ok Onego E Yiege -- Okang� Mokwongo: Nyinge Michako Nyathi ka Pod Yom -- Okang mar Ariyo: Nyinge Lek gi Juogi -- Okang� Mar Adek: Nyinge mag Ranyis Anyuola -- Okang� Mar Ang�wen: Nyinge Pakruok -- Wach Mogik -- Notes -- What�s in a Name? Four Levels of Naming among the Luo People -- Introduction -- A Guinea Fowl Should not Abandon Its Feathers -- The First Level: Names Given to Infants -- The Second Level: Names from Dreams and Ancestral Names |
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The Third Level: Names That Show KinshipThe Fourth Level: Praise Names -- Conclusion -- Notes -- KÅ©geria MÄ©ario: Atumia, Ciana, MbÅ©ri, MÄ©gÅ©nda -- GÄ©tongoria -- MÄ©ikarÄ©re -- Ä?cunjÄ© Cia Hau Kabere -- KÅ©imbÅ©ria IcunjÄ© na Makinya ma GÅ©kÅ©ra -- Hitho ya Ciugoâ€?GÅ©cÄ©rumbÅ©yia -- Riika na MaÅ©ndÅ© MarÄ©konie -- KÅ©rigicania Miarioâ€?Aka na MaÅ©ndÅ© Mao -- MÄ©eke na Itheriâ€?MÄ©haka na MÄ©aramano -- GÅ©tÅ©ma na GÅ©chokanÄ©rÄ©ria -- KÅ©rÄ©kÄ©rÄ©riaâ€?Ciugo Cia KÅ©rigÄ©rÄ©ria na Å©taarani -- Concluding Caveat -- Notes |
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Conversations: Women, Children, Goats, LandIntroduction -- Culture and Tradition -- Social Divisions of the Past -- Investigating the Stages of Growth and Emerging Divisions and Groups -- Words and Hidden Meanings �Interrogation and Exposure -- Age-Sets and Related Matters -- Complicating the Discussion�Women and Their Experiences -- Gaps and Spaces �Limits and Oportunities -- Weaving Loose Ends -- Notes -- Okwu na Uche -- I. Mmalite -- II. Filosofi n�asusu Igbo? -- III. Okwu na Uche -- III.a. Uche bu Aku |
ISBN |
9781461943136 (electronic bk.) |
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1461943132 (electronic bk.) |
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9781438447452 (e-book) |
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1438447450 (e-book) |
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9781438447438 |
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1438447434 |
OCLC # |
859331561 |
Additional Format |
Print version: Listening to ourselves 9781438447438 (DLC) 2012037138 (OCoLC)810442727. |
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