Melville J. Herskovits (1895–1963)
Author of The Myth of the Negro Past
About the Author
Melville Jean Herskovits, an American anthropologist who was a student of Franz Boas at Columbia University, became a leading student of acculturation and an outstanding teacher at Northwestern University, where he founded the first U.S. program in African Studies in 1951. He did work in Surinam, show more Haiti, Trinidad, and Brazil, but his major research was on African blacks and the forced relocation of their culture to the New World. He studied religion, music, and folklore, and was particularly interested in how culture influences the arts. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Melville J. Herskovits
El hombre y sus obras : ciencia de la antropologia cultural (Seccion de Obras de Antropologia) (Spanish Edition) (2007) 7 copies
Unknown Book 1967773 2 copies
Acculturation 2 copies
Life in a Haitian Valley 1 copy
Il mito del passato negro 1 copy
Myth of the Negro Past 1 copy
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- 1895-09-10
- Date of death
- 1963-02-25
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- male
- Occupations
- anthropologist
university professor - Organizations
- Northwestern University
- Relationships
- Mandelbaum, David G. (student)
- Nationality
- USA
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- USA
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A 1941 monograph intended to debunk the myth that African Americans lost their African culture due to their experience of slavery.
Abridged from Cultural Anthropology. I used it for an introductory anthropology course in the late 1960s.
Cover posted is similar to, but not the original.
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