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The New World Negro
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ISBN: 0253340403
Author: Herskovits, Frances S.
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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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The New World Negro