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The New World Negro

The New World Negro

Herskovits, Frances S.

Hardcover

Black American StudiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0253340403
ISBN13: 9780253340405
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Aug 10 2004
Pages: 396
Weight: 1.65
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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 weight.

The volume is divided into eight major sections entitled The Afroamerican Field--A Laboratory for the Study of Man; Theory and Method; Ethnohistory--The Laboratory Control in Studies of Acculturation; Ethno-psychology; The Arts; Cult Life in Brazil; The World View of an Urban Community--Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana; and Reinterpretations.

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