New World Negro

Name: New World Negro
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ISBN: 9780253340405

ISBN-10: 0253340403

ISBN-13: 9780253340405

Edition: 2004

Authors: Frances S. Herskovits, Melvin Herskovits

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Bringing together for the first time selected articles by the distinguished anthropologist, this volume presents a comprehensive survey of Herskovits' exhaustive study of the Negro in the Western Hemisphere. The author came to perceive the Afroamerican field as a laboratory in which hypotheses of the widest scope in the study of acculturation could be tested, with ethnohistory as the control factor. Moreover, he regarded acculturation as a process of mutual exchange rather than a matter of members of minority groups taking over the cultural elements of a dominant majority. Herskovits also insisted that the study of culture be holisitc, and that the arts and values of a people be given full…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 8/10/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 396
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English