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
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