• Melville Jean Herskovits (September 10, 1895 – February 25, 1963) was an American anthropologist who helped to first establish African and African Diaspora...
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    The Myth of the Negro Past is a 1941 monograph by Melville J. Herskovits intended to debunk the myth that African Americans lost their African culture...
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  • Frances Herskovits was born in Evanston, Illinois, on May 20, 1935, to anthropologists Melville J. Herskovits and Frances Shapiro Herskovits. She received...
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    sections are: Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies: established in 1954, and named after Melville J. Herskovits, the Herskovits Library is the...
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  • The ASA Best Book Prize, formerly known as the Herskovits Prize (Melville J. Herskovits Prize), is an annual prize given by the African Studies Association...
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    policies on such a false premise. Boas, and his students such as Melville J. Herskovits, opposed the racist pseudoscience developed at the Kaiser Wilhelm...
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    Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-313-33441-2. Herskovits, Melville J; Herskovits, Frances (1934). Rebel Destiny Among the Bush Negroes of Dutch...
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    October 2005, Kaczynski offered to donate two rare books to the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University's campus in...
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  • 2009. Bade, David W. (2000). "Books in African languages in the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, Northwestern University: a catalog"...
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  • Political Science Association. It was also a finalist for the 2001 Melville J. Herskovits Award for the best book in African studies awarded by the African...
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  • earned his Ph.D. in anthropology at Northwestern University under Melville J. Herskovits in 1939, which was based on research carried out amongst the Yoruba...
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  • majored in anthropology at Northwestern University, studying with Melville J. Herskovits. His major published work dealt with the Plains Cree people of Saskatchewan...
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  • Kenya. The phrase appears in the 1967 book on Dahomey culture by Melville J. Herskovits. He wrote about the need to learn the native language: "This does...
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  • Suriname folk-lore, Melville J. Herskovits, Frances S. Herskovits". DBNL (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-11-05. Wooding, Charles J. (1981). Evolving culture :...
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  • Intellectual history, and North Carolina history. In 2004, he published Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge (Lincoln: University of Nebraska...
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  • Chronicle, which are: MS Falke 0704 (Umar Falke Collection in the Melville J. Herskovits Library of Africana, Northwestern University; ends with the reign...
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    Sociologie de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles: pp. 2–24. 1971, Melville J. Herskovits Award for Rwanda and Burundi, African Studies Association The René...
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  • others identify it using their word for yellow. Thus, Boas's student Melville Herskovits summed up the principle of cultural relativism thus: "Judgements...
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    Bethany Dillon - singer Allan W. Eckert - author Jim Flora - artist Melville J. Herskovits - anthropologist Livingston Hopkins - cartoonist Kin Hubbard - cartoonist...
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    earned an MA (1955), and then a PhD (1960) under the supervision of Melville J. Herskovits on the subject of "Role conflict, reference group, and race". In...
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  • (b. 1888) 1957 – Bugs Moran, American mob boss (b. 1893) 1963 – Melville J. Herskovits, American anthropologist and academic (b. 1895) 1964 – Alexander...
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    15 (3): 417–432. doi:10.1017/s0021853700013566. S2CID 162286376. Herskovits, Melville J. (1967). Dahomey: An Ancient West African Kingdom (Volume I ed.)...
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    susceptible. In 1965, following a debate between Donald T. Campbell and Melville J. Herskovits on whether culture can influence such basic aspects of perception...
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  • Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry and Life in a Haitian Valley (1937) by Melville J. Herskovits. In "The Man in the Morgue", episode 19 of the first season of the...
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    June 6, 2007. Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies: established in 1954, and named after Melville J. Herskovits, the Herskovits Library is the...
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    S2CID 143464386. Ball, John; George Herzog; Thelma James; Louis C. Jones; Melville J. Herskovits; Wm. Hugh Jansen; Richard M. Dorson; Alvin W. Wolfe; Daniel G. Hoffman...
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  • of Marcus Garvey by Marcus Garvey The Myth of the Negro Past by Melville J. Herskovits A History of Negro Revolt by C.L.R. James MUNTU: The New African...
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    Vol. 30 (1 ed.). Berghahn Books. 2019. doi:10.2307/j.ctvw04dv9. ISBN 978-1-78533-590-7. JSTOR j.ctvw04dv9. "The Macro-Cultural Regions of Asia". WorldAtlas...
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    but he later corresponded with and pursued graduate studies with Melville J. Herskovits at Columbia University and with Ray Birdwhistell at the University...
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  • Stranger. Stamford, Connecticut: Overbrook Press (1958). Fei Xiaotong Melville J. Herskovits Katherine Dunham Delpar, Helen (2008). Looking South: The Evolution...
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