Melville J. Herskovits
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- PhD Anthropology Columbia University
- Masters Anthropology Columbia University
- Bachelors Philosophy University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Melville Jean Herskovits was an American anthropologist who helped to first establish African and African Diaspora studies in American academia. He is known for exploring the cultural continuity from African cultures as expressed in African-American communities. He worked with his wife Frances Herskovits, also an anthropologist, in the field in South America, the Caribbean and Africa. They jointly wrote several books and monographs.
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Published Works
- MEMORANDUM FOR THE STUDY OF ACCULTURATION (1936) (2578)
- The influence of culture on visual perception (1967) (643)
- The Myth of the Negro Past (1942) (626)
- THE CATTLE COMPLEX IN EAST AFRICA (1926) (354)
- Man and his works : the science of cultural anthropology (1949) (292)
- Man And His Works (1948) (258)
- Cultural Differences in the Perception of Geometric Illusions (1963) (233)
- Continuity and Change in African Cultures. (1963) (159)
- Cultural relativism; perspectives in cultural pluralism (1972) (139)
- Dahomey, an ancient West African kingdom (1939) (128)
- Dahomey: An Ancient West African Kingdom (1940) (103)
- AFRICAN GODS AND CATHOLIC SAINTS IN NEW WORLD NEGRO BELIEF1 (1937) (99)
- The anthropometry of the American Negro (92)
- The Economic Life Of Primitive Peoples (1940) (90)
- The Human Factor In Changing Africa (1963) (87)
- Economic anthropology : readings in theory and analysis (1968) (73)
- The Khoisan Peoples of South Africa, Bushmen and Hottentots. I. Schapera (1932) (68)
- The Negro in Bahia, Brazil: A Problem in Method (1943) (63)
- THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY OF ACCULTURATION FOR ANTHROPOLOGY (1937) (63)
- Economic Anthropology: The Economic Life of Primitive Peoples (1965) (63)
- THE NEGRO IN THE NEW WORLD: THE STATEMENT OF A PROBLEM (1930) (58)
- Economic anthropology : a study in comparative economics (1953) (57)
- Problem, Method and Theory in Afroamerican Studies (1946) (55)
- The New World Negro : selected papers in Afroamerican studies (1968) (49)
- Dahomean Narrative: A Cross-Cultural Analysis (1958) (49)
- Economic Transition in Africa. (1967) (47)
- Chopi Musicians: Their Music, Poetry, and Instruments (1948) (44)
- The Hypothetical Situation: A Technique of Field Research (1950) (43)
- A Note on ‘Woman Marriage’ in Dahomey (1937) (42)
- Negro Problems in Cities. (1928) (41)
- The American Negro : a study in racial crossing (1928) (37)
- On the provenience of the Portuguese in Saramacca tongo (1931) (36)
- Man and His Works: The Science of Cultural Anthropology. (1949) (34)
- Some Further Comments on Cultural Relativism1 (1958) (30)
- Tradition, Values, and Socio-Economic Development (1962) (30)
- Economics and Anthropology: A Rejoinder (1941) (28)
- An Outline Of Dahomean Religious Belief (1933) (28)
- 162. A Memorandum for the Study of Acculturation (1935) (28)
- THE CONTRIBUTION OF AFROAMERICAN STUDIES TO AFRICANIST RESEARCH (1948) (27)
- A PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATION OF THE CULTURE AREAS OF AFRICA (1924) (23)
- The Cultural Approach to Sociology (1923) (23)
- A Critical Discussion of the "Mulatto Hypothesis" (1934) (23)
- Suriname Folk-Lore (1937) (22)
- DRUMS AND DRUMMERS IN AFRO-BRAZILIAN CULT LIFE (1944) (20)
- The American Negro, A Study in Racial Crossing. (1928) (20)
- Economic Anthropology: A Study in Comparative Economics. (1954) (19)
- APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGISTS. (1936) (18)
- Wari in the New World. (1932) (18)
- The Culture Areas of Africa (1930) (17)
- The Significance of West Africa for Negro Research (1936) (17)
- On the Provenience of New World Negroes (1933) (15)
- THE SOUTHERNMOST OUTPOSTS OF NEW WORLD AFRICANISMS1 (1943) (15)
- Sibling Rivalry, the Oedipus Complex, and Myth (1958) (14)
- Some observations on the growth of colored boys (1924) (14)
- On the Relation Between Negro-White Mixture and Standing in Intelligence Tests (1926) (14)
- The Ahistorical Approach to Afroamerican Studies: A Critique* (1960) (13)
- SOME COMMENTS ON THE STUDY OF CULTURAL CONTACT (1941) (13)
- The physical form of Mississippi Negroes (1931) (12)
- Social Selection in a Mixed Population. (1926) (11)
- Folklore after a Hundred Years: A Problem in Redefinition (1946) (10)
- Gullah. Negro Life in the Carolina Sea Islands. (1941) (10)
- SOME PROPERTY CONCEPTS AND MARRIAGE CUSTOMS OF THE VANDAU (1923) (10)
- The Present Status and Needs of Afroamerican Research (1951) (10)
- Some Thoughts on American Research in Africa (1958) (10)
- Tender- and Tough-Minded Anthropology and the Study of Values in Culture (1951) (9)
- Isles of rhythm (1948) (9)
- Variability and Racial Mixture (1927) (9)
- The Study of African Oral Art (1961) (9)
- The Ashanti Ntoro: A Re-Examination. (1937) (9)
- Education and Cultural Dynamics (1943) (8)
- Anthropology and Africa—A Wider Perspective (1959) (8)
- Social Pattern: A Methodological Study (1925) (8)
- Age changes in pigmentation of American Negroes (1926) (8)
- Native Self-Government (1944) (7)
- Cultural anthropology, Text ed. (1955) (7)
- Social Organisation and Ceremonial Institutions of the Bomvana (1932) (7)
- SOUTH AMERICA: The City of Women. Ruth Landes. (1948) (7)
- Psychology and culture. (6)
- Peoples and Cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa (1955) (6)
- The Social Organization of the Afrobrazilian Candomble (1956) (6)
- 90. Adjiboto, an African Game of the Bush-Negroes of Dutch Guiana (1929) (6)
- THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THORSTEIN VEBLEN FOR ANTHROPOLOGY (1936) (5)
- COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN HUMAN BIOLOGY. (1944) (5)
- Tales in Pidgin English from Ashanti (1937) (5)
- Discussion from the Floor (1959) (5)
- Comment on Aberle's Thesis of Deprivation (1959) (5)
- 66. The New World Negro as an Anthropological Problem (1931) (5)
- Correlation of length and breadth of head in American Negroes (5)
- The backgrounds of African art (1945) (4)
- Past Developments and Present Currents in Ethnology (1959) (4)
- Some Further Notes on Franz Boas' Arctic Expedition (1957) (4)
- ON "RACIAL" DIFFERENCES. (1938) (4)
- Some Aspects of Dahomean Ethnology (1932) (4)
- Some Physical Characteristics of the American Negro Population (1927) (3)
- Some Contemporary Developments in Sub-Saharan Africa (1954) (3)
- A Further Discussion of the Variability of Family Strains in the Negro—White Population of New York City (1925) (3)
- A Test of the Downey Will-Temperament Test. (3)
- : Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race . M. F. Ashley-Montagu. (1946) (3)
- On some modes of ethnographic comparison (1956) (2)
- The second Northwestern University expedion for the study of the Suriname Bush-Negroes (2)
- 148. The Numerical System of the Kru (1939) (2)
- Negro Art: African and American (1926) (2)
- ANTHROPOLOGY DURING THE WAR (1945) (2)
- Some Next Steps in the Study of Negro Folklore (1943) (2)
- Some Recent Developments in the Study of West African Native Life (1939) (2)
- Race Relations (1929) (1)
- African Survivals in the New World@@@Suriname Folk-Lore. (1937) (1)
- CHARLES GABRIEL SELIGMAN (1941) (1)
- Economics in Primitive Communities.Richard Thurnwald (1933) (1)
- In the Land of Rum and Coca-Cola@@@Trinidad Village (1947) (1)
- GENERAL: The Anthropology of Franz Boas: Essays on the Centennial of His Birth. Walter Goldschmidt (1960) (1)
- Growth of interpupillary distance in American Negroes (1926) (1)
- Chopi Musicians: Their Music, Poetry, and Instruments . By Hugh Tracey. London: Oxford University Press, for International African Institute, 1948. Pp. xi+180. (Illustrated.) (1949) (1)
- Preliminary report of an ethnological expedition to Suriname, 1928 (1)
- MISCELLANEOUS: Mainsprings of Civilization, by Ellsworth Huntington (1946) (1)
- Further Comments on Boas (1956) (1)
- Extremes and Means in Racial Interpretation (1924) (1)
- Servitude and Progress (1923) (1)
- International directory of anthropologists (1950) (1)
- 84. Symbolism in Dahomean Art (1941) (1)
- AFRICA: Land, Labour and Diet in Northern Rhodesia, an Economic Study of the Bemba Tribe. Audrey I. Richards (1940) (1)
- Economic Development for Africa South of the Sahara.@@@Economic Transition in Africa. (1965) (0)
- The New Look in Cultural Anthropology (1948) (0)
- WARE, CAROLINE F. (Ed.). The Cultural Approach to History. Pp. x, 359. New York: Columbia University Press, 1940. $3.50 (1941) (0)
- The Panan, an Afrobahian Religious Rite of Transition (1959) (0)
- General Index to Volume IX (1936) (0)
- Race Relations (1933) (0)
- Nuer Customs and Folklore@@@The Bavenda@@@Chaka, an Historical Romance@@@Tales Told in Togoland (1933) (0)
- A Note on Present Day Myth (0)
- African Folktales and Sculpture, ed. and Introductions by Paul Radin and James Johnson Sweeney (1953) (0)
- The Negro's African Past@@@The Myth of the Negro Past. (1942) (0)
- Book Review:Indian Tribes of the Argentine and Bolivian Chaco. Raphael Karsten (1933) (0)
- MILLIS, WALTER. The Road to War. Pp. 466. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Co., 1935. $3.00 (1935) (0)
- ROBERT SUTHERLAND RATTRAY (1939) (0)
- The Report of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa. By John Roscoe, M.A. and The Religion of Lower Races, as Illustrated by the African Bantu, by Edwin W. Smith (1924) (0)
- Tales in Pidgin English from Nigeria (1931) (0)
- AMERICA: Tribes of the Rif. Carleton C. Coon (1933) (0)
- ALLEN, JAMES S. The Negro Question in the United States. Pp. 224. New York: International Publishers, 1936. $2.00 (1937) (0)
- Race Relations (1930) (0)
- Anthropology and cultureal change in Africa : two lectures delivered on invitation of the Committee for Academic interests of the University of South Africa, on August 20 and 21, 1957 (1957) (0)
- CALPIN, G. H. (Ed.). The South African Way of Life. Pp. ix, 200. New York: Columbia University Press, 1954. $3.50 (1954) (0)
- Paul Wingert, The Sculpture of Negro Africa (1951) (0)
- The American Labor Year Book, 1923–24. By the Labor Research Department of the Rand School of Social Science. Solon De Leon, Editor, Nathan Fine, Associate. New York: Rand School of Social Science, 1924, pp. 584. Volume V, $3.00 (1924) (0)
- MISCELLANEOUS: The Origin of the Inequality of the Social Classes. Gunnar Landtman (1940) (0)
- The Negro Year Book, 1925-1926. (1925) (0)
- PARSONS, ELSIE CLEWS. Mitla, Town of the Souls. Pp. xix, 590. Chicago: Uni versity of Chicago Press, 1936. $4.00 (1937) (0)
- Viking Fund Medalists 1953 (1954) (0)
- Negro Year Book, An Annual Encyclopedia of the Negro, 1931–1932, edited by Monroe N. Work (1932) (0)
- African Majesty. A Record of Refuge at the Court of the King of Bangangte in the French Cameroons. (1941) (0)
- Report on Southern Africa (1952) (0)
- Economic Development for Africa South of the Sahara: Proceedings of a Conference Held by the International Economic Association.@@@Economic Transition in Africa. (1966) (0)
- A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America. Compiled by Monroe N. Work: The American Negro. (1929) (0)
- AFRICA: The Succession of Bemba Chiefs. A Guide for District Officers. W. V. Brelsford (1945) (0)
- On Accuracy in Scientific Controversy (1960) (0)
- FURBAY, ELIZABETH DEARMIN. Top Hats and Tom-Toms. Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., 1943. $3.00 (1944) (0)
- AFRICA: African Political Systems. Edited by M. Fortes and E. E. Evans‐Pritchard (1941) (0)
- Tenants of the Almighty. Arthur Raper (1946) (0)
- 5. African Ethnology and the New World Negro (1938) (0)
- SOME PROBLEMS OF GRADUATE TRAINING IN ANTHROPOLOGY (1949) (0)
- The Myth of the Negro Past@@@Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art (1943) (0)
- The Study of Culture@@@Cultural Anthropology. (1956) (0)
- AFRICA: The Cow‐Tail Switch and Other West African Stories. Harold Courlander and Georce Herzog, with drawings by Madge Lee Chastain. (1948) (0)
- Trinidad Proverbs ("Old Time Saying So") (1945) (0)
- The definition of ethnological terms. (1947) (0)
- Race Relations (1932) (0)
- Man and His Works@@@The Ways of Men (1950) (0)
- The Zimbabwe Culture.G. Caton-Thompson (1932) (0)
- The Theory of Human Culture (1948) (0)
- Africa, South of the Sahara, 1958 (1959) (0)
- WOODSON, CARTER. The African Back ground. Pp. viii, 478. Washington: Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1936. $3.25 (1937) (0)
- Anthropology: An Introduction to Primitive Culture.@@@A Black Civilization: A Social Study of an Australian Tribe.@@@Life in a Haitian Valley. (1938) (0)
- The Culture Historical Method of Ethnology: The Scientific Approach to the Racial Question.Wilhelm Schmidt , Clyde Kluckhohn , S. A. Sieber (1941) (0)
- A REPLY TO DR. ASHLEY MONTAGU (1946) (0)
- The American Race Problem.E. B. Reuter (1940) (0)
- PENNIMAN, T. K. A Hundred Years of Anthropology. Pp. 400. New York: Macmillan Co., 1936. $4.50 (1936) (0)
- AFRICA: The Nuer: a Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People. E. E. Evans‐Pritchard (1944) (0)
- Christanity and the Race Problem (1925) (0)
- On "Racial" Differences (1945) (0)
- MURDOCK, GEORGE PETER. Social Struc ture. Pp. xvii, 387. New York: Mac millan, 1949. $4.50 (1950) (0)
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