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The Herskovits Prize (Melville J. Herskovits Award) is an annual award given by the African Studies Association to the best scholarly work (including translations) on Africa published in English in. .Life in a Haitian Valley, 1937. Dahomey: An Ancient West African Kingdom (2 vols), 1938.

The Herskovits Prize (Melville J. Herskovits Award) is an annual award given by the African Studies Association to the best scholarly work (including translations) on Africa published in English in the previous year. The Cattle Complex in East Africa, PhD Dissertation, 1923 (published as a book in 1926). The Negro's Americanism", in Alain Locke (e., The New Negro, 1925. On the Relation Between Negro-White Mixture and Standing in Intelligence Tests, 1926. Economic Life of Primitive People, 1940.

Life in a Haitian Valley Paperback – November 1, 2011. Herskovits was America's leading anthropologist, first president of the African Studies Association and author of many books. by. Melville J. Herskovits (Author). Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Are you an author? Learn about Author Central. Life in a Haitian Valley is his most famous work on Caribbean culture.

Melville J. Herskovits. The Human Factor In Changing Africa. Life in a Haitian Valley. Herskovits, Frances S. The American Negro: A Study in Racial Crossing. Man and His Works: The Science of Cultural Anthropology. The Myth of the Negro Past.

Life in a Haitian Valley book. Melville Herskovits, who died in 1963, is not the most famous anthropologist ever, but he was the first white man to tell the world to wake up and smell the coffee. That is, that African cultures were rich and varied, that they had been brought by slaves to the New World and still lived on, though mixed with European and Native American-derived elements. He founded the first African Studies department in the US and a great library at Northwestern University. His many studies of a pioneering work.

Melville Jean Herskovits was born in Bellefontaine, Ohio, on September 10, 1895; he lived there until the age of te.

Melville Jean Herskovits was born in Bellefontaine, Ohio, on September 10, 1895; he lived there until the age of ten. He subsequently lived in El Paso, Texas, and Erie, Pennsylvania, where he graduated from Erie High School in 1912. The results are described in Herskovits' book The American Negro: A Study in Racial Crossing (New York, 1928). These conclusions and the data on which they were based were likewise presented in more technical form in a mono-graph, The Anthropometry of the American Negro (New York, 1930), which appeared in the series Columbia Uni-versity Contributions to Anthropology.

Life in a Haitian Valley. Herskovits, Melville J. Published by Anchor Books, Garden City, NY (1971). Published by Markus Wiener Publishers (2011). ISBN 10: 1558764550 ISBN 13: 9781558764552.

Herskovits, Melville J.

Melville Jean Herskovits was born on September 10, 1895, in Bellefontaine, Ohio, into the family of Herman Herskovits and Henrietta Hart, immigrants from Europe. Due to Mrs. Herskovits’ poor health the family moved first to Texas, and then to Pennsylvania. Melville finished high school in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1912. In 1928 he traveled to Suriname, work which resulted in two books, jointly authored with his wife Frances Herskovits, Rebel Destiny (1934) and Suriname Folk Lore (1936). In the late 1930s he did field work in Benin, Brazil, Haiti, Ghana, Nigeria, and Trinidad.

In its time, Life in a Haitian Valley was considered one of the most accurate depictions of the Haitian practice of voodoo .

In its time, Life in a Haitian Valley was considered one of the most accurate depictions of the Haitian practice of voodoo, meticulously detailing the lives and voodoo practices of the inhabitants of Mirebalais during Herskovits' three-month stay. Melville Herskovits's position formed one half of the debate with Franklin Frazier on the nature of cultural contact in the Western Hemisphere, specifically with reference to Africans, Europeans, and their descendents. After World War II, Herskovits publicly advocated African independence and also attacked American politicians for viewing Africa as an object of Cold War strategy.

In its time, Life in a Haitian Valley was considered on of the most accurate depictions of the Haitian practice of voodoo . - ▪ American anthropologist in full Melville Jean Herskovits born Sept. 10, 1895, Bellefontaine, Ohio, . died Feb. 25, 1963, Evanston, Ill.

In its time, Life in a Haitian Valley was considered on of the most accurate depictions of the Haitian practice of voodoo, meticulously detailing the lives and voodoo practices of the inhabitants of Mirebalais during Herskovits' three-month stay.