Quote of the day
The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual.
Melville J. Herskovits
Born: September 10, 1895
Died: February 25, 1963 (aged 67)
Bio: Melville Jean Herskovits was an American anthropologist who firmly established African and African-American studies in American academia. He is known for exploring the cultural continuity from African cultures as expressed in African-American communities.
Known for:
- The myth of the Negro past
- Dahomean narrative
- The Human Factor In Changing Africa
- The anthropometry of the American Negro
- Dahomey, an ancient West African kingdom