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American historian (1935–2019)
Jean Frances Herskovits was born in Evanston, Illinois, on May 20, 1935, to anthropologists Melville J. Herskovits and Frances Shapiro Herskovits. She
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France, in 1924. They later had a daughter, Jean Herskovits, who became a historian. In 1927, Herskovits moved to Northwestern University in Evanston
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Herskovits
Rainbow serpent loa
Columbia University Press. pp. 61–64. (google) Herskovits & Herskovits (1936), p. 64. Herskovits & Herskovits (1936), p. 64, n2. Bay, Edna (1985). Asen: Iron
Ayida_Wedo
1851 British naval bombardment of present-day Lagos, Nigeria
Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 16. Retrieved 23 December 2016. Kopytoff, Jean Herskovits. A preface to modern Nigeria: the "Sierra Leonians" in Yoruba, 1830-1890
Reduction_of_Lagos
Devotion to serpent deities
681-706. Herskovits & Herskovits (1936), p. 61. Herskovits & Herskovits (1936), p. 61, n3. Herskovits & Herskovits (1936), p. 63n3, p. 526. Herskovits & Herskovits
Snake_worship
Country in West Africa
Freetown, Sierra Leone. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-94795-4. Kopytoff, Jean Herskovits. A Preface to Modern Nigeria: The "Sierra Leonians" in Yoruba, 1830–1890
Sierra_Leone
Annual prize given by the African Studies Association
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
ASA_Best_Book_Prize
June 2021. Retrieved 12 July 2025. Law 1993. Office 1896. Kopytoff, Jean Herskovits. A preface to modern Nigeria: the "Sierra Leonians" in Yoruba, 1830-1890
Timeline_of_Yoruba_history
University in Freetown, Sierra-Leone
"About Us". Fourah Bay College. Retrieved 9 August 2018. Kopytoff, Jean Herskovits. A Preface to Modern Nigeria: The "Sierra Leonians" in Yoruba, 1830–1890
Fourah_Bay_College
SAGE Publications Inc. 2021-03-21. Retrieved 2021-03-22. Herskovits, Melville Jean; Herskovits, Frances Shapiro (1998). Dahomean Narrative: A Cross-cultural
Gbadu
Oba of Lagos
poisoned by Kosoko's loyal chiefs: Oshodi Tapa, Ajenia, and Ipossu. Jean Herskovits raises the possibility that Akitoye may have committed ritual suicide
Akitoye
Village in New York, United States
ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 23, 2020. "Armand Lindenbaum Weds Jean Herskovits at the Plaza". The New York Times. June 10, 1966. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved
Atlantic_Beach,_New_York
River in Benin
Benin Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993. Herskovits, Melville Jean; Herskovits, Frances Shapiro (1964). An outline of Dahomean religious
Agbado_River
Haitian Vodou lwa
Vol. 19. Translated by Charteris, Hugo (2 ed.). Sphere Books. p. 72. Herskovits, Melville J. (1937). "African Gods and Catholic Saints in New World Negro
Ti_Jean
Public university in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Higher Education (THE). 2020-10-01. Retrieved 2020-12-14. Kopytoff, Jean Herskovits. A Preface to Modern Nigeria: The "Sierra Leonians" in Yoruba, 1830–1890
University_of_Sierra_Leone
Giles, 80, American R&B and blues singer-songwriter and musician. Jean Herskovits, 83, American historian. Fumiko Hori, 100, Japanese painter. Peter
Deaths_in_February_2019
Biography, Aldine Pub. Co., 1978, p. 32. ISBN 0-520-05179-3. Kopytoff, Jean Herskovits. A preface to modern Nigeria: the "Sierra Leonians" in Yoruba, 1830–1890
Richard_Beale_Blaize
2013 film
Jodorowsky, starring Brontis Jodorowsky, Pamela Flores, and Jeremias Herskovits. It is Alejandro Jodorowsky's first film in 23 years. The film screened
The_Dance_of_Reality
Nigerian activist
Jonathan. He also interviewed high-profile personalities such as Prof. Jean Herskovits, historian of the State University of New York, U.S. ambassador and
Bello_Bala_Shagari
serves as president of the ASA. December 8: Niklas Luhmann Melville Jean Herskovits' The American Negro is published. Robert Morrison MacIver's Community
1920s_in_sociology
Offe October 14: George Ritzer September 27: Walter Benjamin Melville Jean Herskovits' The Myth of the Negro Past is published. George Homans' English villages
1940s_in_sociology
Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-18. Greenberg, Joseph C. (1971). Melville Jean Herskovits (PDF). National Academy of Sciences. Archived (PDF) from the original
List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1937
List_of_Guggenheim_Fellowships_awarded_in_1937
Bernard Lugan Joseph C. Miller Stefan Jakobielski Ivan Hrbek [cs] Jean Herskovits Luboš Kropáček [cs] Robert Hess Linda Heywood E. Jefferson Murphy David
List_of_historians_of_Africa
and author (b. 1928) February 5 Audrey Cleary, politician (b. 1930) Jean Herskovits, historian (b. 1935) Christine Kay, journalist and editor (b. 1964)
2019 deaths in the United States (January–June)
2019_deaths_in_the_United_States_(January–June)
Nigerian businessman (1828–1906)
James Pinson Labulo Davies. p. 190. Herskovits Kopytoff (1965). A Preface to Modern Nigeria. p. 244. Herskovits Kopytoff (1965). A Preface to Modern
James_Pinson_Labulo_Davies
Ginen in Haitian Vodou
5, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, Cambridge University Press, p. 196. Herskovits, Melville J. (1937). "African Gods and Catholic Saints in New World Negro
Papa_Legba
Ugandan anthropologist and academic (born 1946)
decolonisation since the "Rhodes Must Fall" student protests in March 2015. 1997: Herskovits Prize for Citizen and Subject 1999: University of Cape Town Book Award
Mahmood_Mamdani
Arabic folk tale
Boston: De Gruyter. p. 192. doi:10.1515/9783112618004-004. Herskovits, Melville; Herskovits, Frances (1998). Dahomean Narratives. Northwestern University
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Ali_Baba_and_the_Forty_Thieves
Secondary school in Bariga, Lagos State, Nigeria
Lagos. Kachifo Limited/Prestige. p. 190. ISBN 9789785205763. Herskovits Kopytoff, Jean. A preface to modern Nigeria: the "Sierra Leonians" in Yoruba
CMS_Grammar_School,_Lagos
English-American philosopher (born 1954)
cosmopolitanism. In 2009, he was an on-screen contributor to the movie Herskovits: At the Heart of Blackness. In 2015, he became one of three contributors
Kwame_Anthony_Appiah
1st Oba of Lagos
& Francis. ISBN 978-1-003-80417-8. Retrieved 27 October 2023. Herskovits Kopytoff, Jean. A Preface to Modern Nigeria: The "Sierra Leoneans" in Yoruba
Ashipa
Political party in Nigeria
creation, which implied longer time needed from initiation to approval. Herskovits, Jean (1979). "Democracy in Nigeria". Foreign Affairs. 58 (2): 314–335. doi:10
Unity_Party_of_Nigeria
Haitian Vodou spirits
During that century, writers like the American anthropologist Melville Herskovits favored the spelling loa, although in 2008 the historian Jeffrey E. Anderson
Lwa
African traditional religion
2017, p. 138. Rush 2017, p. 49. Ojo 1999, p. 63. Pinn 2017, p. 7. Herskovits & Herskovits 1958, p. 125. Montgomery & Vannier 2017, p. 127. Landry 2019, p
West_African_Vodún
Cultural and political movement developed by a francophone African elite
concept of Indigenism, and 20th-century American anthropologist Melville Herskovits. Black intellectuals have historically been proud of Haiti due to its
Négritude
American domestic terrorist (1942–2023)
October 2005, Kaczynski offered to donate two rare books to the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University's campus in Evanston
Ted_Kaczynski
Adjusting to a new cultural environment
while preserving their culture of origin). In 1936, Redfield, Linton, and Herskovits provided the first widely used definition of acculturation as: Those phenomena
Acculturation
1925 anthology edited by Alain Locke
including W. E. B. Du Bois, historian E. Franklin Frazier, Melville J. Herskovits, James Weldon Johnson, Paul U. Kellogg, Elise Johnson McDougald, Kelly
The_New_Negro
Ethnic group in Benin Republic
appeared, such as those by Édouard Foà, N. Savariau, Le Herisse and M.J. Herskovits' anthropological study on Fon people published in 1938. These histories
Fon_people
Anglican bishop in Yoruba country (present day Nigeria)
The Space for Public Apology. Frontier Press. ISBN 9789789495276. Herskovits, Jean (1965). A Preface to Modern Nigeria: The "Sierra Leonians" in Yoruba
Samuel_Ajayi_Crowther
14: 3–29. doi:10.2307/842168. JSTOR 842168. Melville J. Herskovits; Frances S. Herskovits. "Suriname folk-lore". Archived from the original on February
List of Caribbean membranophones
List_of_Caribbean_membranophones
American cultural anthropologist
Prize. In 1992, The Cinematic Griot: The Ethnography of Jean Rouch was a finalist for the Herskovits Prize. In this examination of the documentary filmmaker
Paul_Stoller
Overthrow of the First Nigerian Republic
of America: Oxford University Press. p. 124. ISBN 978-0192156419. Herskovits, Jean (1979). "Democracy in Nigeria". Foreign Affairs. 58 (2): 314–335. doi:10
1966_Nigerian_coup_d'état
Ceremonial sovereign of Lagos, Nigeria
1760-1900. Indiana University Press, 2007. p. 45. ISBN 9780253348845. Herskovits Kopytoff, Jean. A Preface to Modern Nigeria: The "Sierra Leoneans" in Yoruba
Oba_of_Lagos
Military Head of State of Nigeria from 1966 to 1975 (born 1934)
Archived from the original on 5 June 2020. Retrieved 29 May 2020. Herskovits, Jean (1979). "Democracy in Nigeria". Foreign Affairs. 58 (2): 314–335. doi:10
Yakubu_Gowon
Haitian French anthropologist, philosopher, journalist, and politician (1850–1911)
négritude. He influenced Jean Price-Mars, the founder of Haitian ethnology and American anthropologists Melville Herskovits and Franz Boas. Following
Anténor_Firmin
1600–1904 kingdom in West Africa
Guyer and Stiansen on the other hand, are skeptical of Iroko's theory. Herskovits recounts a complex tax system in the kingdom, in which officials who represented
Dahomey
Academic field focusing on peoples of the African diaspora and Africa
of the 20th century were Carter G. Woodson, Herbert Aptheker, Melville Herskovits, and Lorenzo Dow Turner. Programs and departments of Black studies in
Black_studies
Anthropology model
Benedict Ruth Bunzel Roland Burrage Dixon Alexander Goldenweiser Melville Herskovits Zora Neale Hurston Melville Jacobs Alfred Kroeber Alexander Lesser Robert
Boasian_anthropology
American actress
Baker, directed by Daniella Topol; The Really Big Once, directed by David Herskovits; And Miles to Go, directed by Hal Brooks; After, directed by Stephen Brackett;
Maria-Christina_Oliveras
African ethnocentrism
that the contributions of white scholars, like Boas, Malinowski, and Herskovits, were fundamental to that complex of ideas that we designate to days as
Afrocentrism
Annual theater awards in New York City
Pinkleton (ta-da!, Can I Be Frank?) abigail jean-baptiste (Chiaroscuro) Paul Lazar (The Barbarians) David Herskovits for Sustained Excellence in Direction Whitney
Obie_Award
American dancer and choreographer (1909–2006)
anthropologists such as A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, Edward Sapir, Melville Herskovits, Lloyd Warner and Bronisław Malinowski. Under their tutelage, she showed
Katherine_Dunham
American folklorists and anthropologists, including Melville and Frances Herskovits, Harold Courlander, Alan Lomax..., and George E. Simpson." François Duvalier's
Dance_in_Haiti
Religion from Haiti
Rites. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-4968-3560-4. Herskovits, Melville J. (1937). Life in a Haitian Valley. New York City: Knopf. Joseph
Haitian_Vodou
American political organization (1966–1982)
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 Culture
Black_Panther_Party
Haitian anthropologist
Nsukka (Nigeria) and worked with renowned anthropologists such as Melville Herskovits and Alfred Métraux, who entrusted her and her husband with a mission of
Suzanne_Comhaire-Sylvain
Public research library in New York City
book of poems by Phillis Wheatley, and archival material of Melville J. Herskovits, John Henrik Clarke, Lorraine Hansberry, Malcolm X and Nat King Cole.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Schomburg_Center_for_Research_in_Black_Culture
American political scientist
honorable mention in the African Studies Association's 2007 Melville J. Herskovits Award, and Choice magazine's Outstanding Academic Title award for 2007
Scott_Straus
Most populous city in Nigeria
2023). "Main Areas In Lagos". TrekLondon. Retrieved 25 February 2023. Herskovits, Melville J. (5 November 2013). The Human Factor in Changing Africa. Routledge
Lagos
Norwegian fairy tale
Brothers. [ca. 1884] pp. 83-106. [1] Herskovits, Melville Jean; Mieczyslaw Kolinski, and Frances Shapiro Herskovits. Suriname Folk-lore. New York: Columbia
The_Master_Maid
Congolese French philosopher and novelist (1941–2025)
about Africa, critical approaches can become fruitless. He received the Herskovits Award given by African Studies Association in 1989. Mudimbe focused most
V._Y._Mudimbe
African jihadist organisation
Archived from the original on 25 January 2012. Retrieved 31 July 2014. Jean Herskovits (2 January 2012). "In Nigeria, Boko Haram Is Not the Problem". The
Boko_Haram
Help offered to Jews to escape the Holocaust
com. 27 June 2012. Archived from the original on 28 June 2012. Annette Herskovits, The mosque that saved Jews The Great Mosque of Paris that saved Jews
Rescue of Jews during the Holocaust
Rescue_of_Jews_during_the_Holocaust
American musicologist (1915–2002)
later corresponded with and pursued graduate studies with Melville J. Herskovits at Columbia University and with Ray Birdwhistell at the University of
Alan_Lomax
Mythical female creature
series). Cambridge, W. Heffer and Sons Ltd., 1910. pp. 56–72. Herskovits, Melville Jean; Herskovits, Frances Shapiro (1998). "Revealing secret identity: Why
Swan_maiden
German-born American anthropologist (1858–1942)
policies on such a false premise. Boas, and his students such as Melville J. Herskovits, opposed the racist pseudoscience developed at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
Franz_Boas
Horatio Hale May 3, 1817 December 28, 1896 United States/Canada Melville J. Herskovits September 10, 1895 February 25, 1963 United States Te Rangi Hīroa October
List_of_scholars_of_ethnology
Traditional [[kingmaker]] of Lagos, Nigeria
Cambridge University Press, 1975. pp. 16–17. ISBN 9780521204392. Herskovits Kopytoff, Jean. A Preface to Modern Nigeria: The "Sierra Leoneans" in Yoruba
Eletu_Odibo
Oba of Lagos (r. 1845–51)
1969 – Benin. pp. 241–242. Mann 2007, p. 48. Cole 1975, p. 195. Herskovits Kopytoff, Jean. A Preface to Modern Nigeria: The "Sierra Leoneans" in Yoruba
Kosoko
and constituted an integral part of the British tradition. Melville J. Herskovits and his student Richard A. Waterman discovered that "European and African
History_of_ethnomusicology
Haitan emigrants and their descendants
who influenced 20th century American anthropologist Melville J. Herskovits. Michaëlle Jean, the former Governor General of Canada and now Secretary-General
Haitian_diaspora
Name list
cricketer Melville Hatch (1898–1988), American entomologist Melville J. Herskovits (1895–1963), American anthropologist Melville R. Hopewell (1845–1911)
Melville_(name)
Ethnic group of Kenya and Tanzania
Hardin's article outlining the "tragedy of the commons", as well as Melville Herskovits' "cattle complex" influenced ecologists and policymakers about the harm
Maasai_people
Relations between Blacks and Jews in America
education or to fund research. In the 1940s, anthropologist Meville J. Herskovits challenged assumptions about Black American culture in his work, The Myth
African American–Jewish relations
African_American–Jewish_relations
1953 play by Tennessee Williams
Mulligan) and Nafe Katter (Lord Mulligan). In January 2009, director David Herskovits staged a new production at the Ohio Theater in Manhattan. This short version
Camino_Real_(play)
Subject of contemporary humanitarian science
Erik Erikson. Identity and the Life Cycle. Selected Papers, 1959 2. Herskovits M. Acculturation: the study of culture contact. NY, 1938 3. Lewin K. Dynamic
Child_Identity
Association of scholars
distributed in the United States. The award was originally named after Melville Herskovits, one of the founders of the ASA. The name was changed in 2019 as the ASA
African_Studies_Association
American historian (born 1941)
1638–1960 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982). Finalist for the Herskovits Prize of the African Studies Association. See excerpt Fortes, Alexandre
Patrick_Manning_(historian)
Deputy prime minister of Romania (born 1941)
modernist circle formed by in Bucharest by the Jewish physician Endre Herskovits. Here, he met authors Vintilă Ivănceanu and Dumitru Țepeneag, and painters
Gelu_Voican_Voiculescu
Calendar year
service), author, screenwriter and actor (b. 1883) February 25 – Melville J. Herskovits, American anthropologist (b. 1895) February 28 Rajendra Prasad, Indian
1963
62. Archived from the original on 2021-06-14. Retrieved 2020-12-10. Herskovits, Jean (1979). "Democracy in Nigeria". Foreign Affairs. 58 (2): 314–335. doi:10
Politics_of_Nigeria
British academic (1928–2014)
modern African historiography. ASA Distinguished Africanist Award 1998, Herskovits Professor of African Studies, Professor Emeritus 1961 The Northern Factor
Ivor_Wilks
has grown in just over a decade to a major museum." Vogel won the 1998 Herskovits Prize for Baule: African Art, Western Eyes, which was later incorporated
Susan_Mullin_Vogel
Office skyscraper in Manhattan, New York
Retrieved August 9, 2021. Caretsky & Herskovits 1997, p. 51. Caretsky & Herskovits 1997, p. 50. Caretsky & Herskovits 1997, p. 52. Rothstein, Mervyn (May
452_Fifth_Avenue
Form of government
Democratic Transitions. Lexington Books. pp. 233–252. ISBN 9780739172643. Herskovits, Jean (July–August 2007). "Nigeria's Rigged Democracy". Foreign Affairs.
Anocracy
Subfield of sociocultural and legal anthropology
Association's (AAA) 1947 "Statement on Human Rights," drafted by Melville Herskovits and transmitted to UNESCO. In response to the United Nations’ efforts
Anthropology_of_human_rights
and E. E. Evans-Pritchard, African Political Systems, 1940 Melville J. Herskovits, The Myth of The Negro Past, 1941 Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation
Bibliography_of_anthropology
American anthropologist
the problem of acculturation, working with Robert Redfield and Melville Herskovits on a prestigious Social Science Research Council subcommittee of the Committee
Ralph_Linton
American immunologist and geneticist
Suzanne; Mann, Navjiwan; Sovath, Sosathya; Goode, Jason; Shamel, Louis; Herskovits, Anat A.; Portnoy, Daniel A.; Cooke, Michael; Tarantino, Lisa M. (January
Bruce_Beutler
Eysenck's Scientific Study of Personality is published. Melville J. Herskovits's Economic Anthropology: A study in Comparative Economics is published
1950s_in_sociology
Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 18 March 2014. Herskovits, Melville Jean (1990). The Myth of the Negro Past. Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-0905-5
Katherine_Flowers
Nigerian educator and administrator
Cambridge University Press, 1975. pp. 105–109. ISBN 9780521204392. Herskovits Kopytoff, Jean. A Preface to Modern Nigeria: The "Sierra Leoneans" in Yoruba
Henry_Rawlingson_Carr
Ideology that seeks to develop a Black national identity
concept of Indigenism, and 20th-century American anthropologist Melville Herskovits. Martin Delany (1812–1885), an African American abolitionist, was arguably
Black_nationalism
Nigerian historian and professor
JSTOR 493299.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) Herskovits, Jean (December 1981). The American Historical Review (Review). 86 (5): 1127–1128
Philip_Igbafe
List of works on the history of Zambia
Geographical Journal. 98 (5/6): 296–297. doi:10.2307/1787462. JSTOR 1787462. Herskovits, Melville J. (1940). "Review of Land, Labour and Diet in Northern Rhodesia
Bibliography of the history of Zambia
Bibliography_of_the_history_of_Zambia
British historian and Africanist
Liberian civil war, was shortlisted for the African Studies Association's Herskovits Award, but caused a minor scandal in West Africa when newspapers reported
Stephen_Ellis_(historian)
practiced their own form of Christianity. Prior to the work of Melville Herskovits in 1941, it was widely believed that all elements of African culture were
Slavery_and_religion
American musicologist and folklorist (1867–1948)
Hartness Flanders, Frank Goodwin, Percy Grainger, Herbert Halpert, Melville Herskovits, Zora Neale Hurston, Myra Hull, George Pullen Jackson, Stetson Kennedy
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