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1. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division

Description

1. 104 audiocassettes.

Summary

1. The collection consists of 104 audio recordings reflecting their interest in ethnic folk music.

Subject

1. Herskovits, Frances S
2. Herskovits, Melville J. 1895-1963
3. Anansi (Legendary character)
4. Acculturation
5. African literature (English)
6. African literature (French)
7. Anthropologists -- Diaries
8. Anthropologists -- Manuscripts
9. Anthropologists -- United States
10. Anthropologists' spouses -- United States
11. Anthropology -- Research -- Africa, West
12. Anthropology -- Research -- Benin
13. Anthropology -- Research -- Brazil
14. Anthropology -- Research -- Ghana
15. Anthropology -- Research -- Haiti
16. Anthropology -- Research -- Nigeria
17. Anthropology -- Research -- Suriname
18. Anthropology -- Research -- Trinidad and Tobago
19. Anthropology teachers -- United States
20. Ashanti (African people)
21. Ashanti (African people) -- Music
22. Authors, African
23. Ethnology -- Africa
24. Ethnology -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
25. Ethnology -- Benin
26. Ethnology -- Brazil
27. Ethnology -- Ghana
28. Ethnology -- Haiti
29. Ethnology -- Methodology
30. Ethnology -- Suriname
31. Ethnology -- Trinidad and Tobago
32. Folklore -- Benin
33. Folklore -- Suriname
34. Maroons -- Suriname
35. Mythology, West African
36. Obeah (Cult) -- Suriname
37. Obeah (Cult) -- Trinidad and Tobago
38. Proverbs, Black -- Trinidad and Tobago
39. Proverbs, Haitian
40. Rites and ceremonies -- Benin
41. Rites and ceremonies -- Brazil
42. Rites and ceremonies -- Brazil -- Bahia (State)
43. Rites and ceremonies -- Haiti
44. Rites and ceremonies -- Suriname
45. Rites and ceremonies -- Trinidad and Tobago
46. Sambas
47. Saramacca (Surinamese people)
48. Orisha religion
49. Umbanda -- Brazil
50. Vodou -- Haiti
51. Bahia (Brazil : State) -- Religious life and customs
52. Benin -- Civilization
53. Benin -- Religion
54. Benin -- Social life and customs
55. Brazil -- Civilization -- African influences
56. Haiti -- Civilization -- African influences
57. Haiti -- Religion
58. Haiti -- Social life and customs
59. Suriname -- Civilization -- African influences
60. Suriname -- Description and travel
61. Suriname -- Languages
62. Trinidad and Tobago -- Civilization -- African influences
63. Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Description and travel

Call number

1. Sc MIRS Herskovits 1986-63

Biography (note)

1. Anthropologist; Africanist; founder of the first African Studies program in the United States. Melville J. Herskovits was born in 1895 in Bellefontaine, Ohio. He received his Doctorate in Anthropology in 1923 from Columbia University where he studied with the eminent anthropologist Franz Boas. With his research associate, collaborator and wife Frances, Herskovits embarked on a forty-year study of African cultures on both sides of the Atlantic. In his 1941 landmark work "The Myth of the Negro Past" and in his more than 400 publications, Herskovits refuted many of the popularly-held beliefs regarding the absence of a sound African culture and the question of the continuity of African culture among blacks in the New World. For thirty-five years Herskovits taught at Northwestern University where in 1947 he founded the Program of African Studies, the first of its kind in the United States. He received numerous honors and distinctions throughout his career and served as both President of the American Folklore Society and the African Studies Association. He also chaired committees of the American Coucil of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council among others. Herskovits died in 1963 and in 1970 the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies was established at Northwestern University. Frances Herskovits was her husband's close and constant collaborator. During field trips she obtained data pertaining to the subculture of the women as well as information on some aspects of ritual, art and other major activities. Mrs. Herskovits co-authored several articles and four books with Melville Herskovits, including "Rebel Destiny" (1934), "Suriname Folk-lore" (1936), "Trinidad Village" (1947) and "Dahomean Narrative" (1958). In 1966 she edited "The New World Negro," a collection of papers by Herskovits and in 1973 "Cultural Relativism," another collection of his writings. With a background in literature and French, Mrs. Herskovits taught African literature at Northwestern University for many years. She died in 1972 in Evanston, Illinois.

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of: Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits papers, 1902-1972. Papers can be found in the Manuscript & Rare Books Division (Sc MG 261). Photographs can be found in the Photographs and Prints Division. Art and artifacts can be found in the Art and Artifacts Division

Author

1. Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963.

Title

1. Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits audio collection.

Publisher

1. [1986]

Biography

1. Anthropologist; Africanist; founder of the first African Studies program in the United States. Melville J. Herskovits was born in 1895 in Bellefontaine, Ohio. He received his Doctorate in Anthropology in 1923 from Columbia University where he studied with the eminent anthropologist Franz Boas. With his research associate, collaborator and wife Frances, Herskovits embarked on a forty-year study of African cultures on both sides of the Atlantic. In his 1941 landmark work "The Myth of the Negro Past" and in his more than 400 publications, Herskovits refuted many of the popularly-held beliefs regarding the absence of a sound African culture and the question of the continuity of African culture among blacks in the New World. For thirty-five years Herskovits taught at Northwestern University where in 1947 he founded the Program of African Studies, the first of its kind in the United States. He received numerous honors and distinctions throughout his career and served as both President of the American Folklore Society and the African Studies Association. He also chaired committees of the American Coucil of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council among others. Herskovits died in 1963 and in 1970 the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies was established at Northwestern University. Frances Herskovits was her husband's close and constant collaborator. During field trips she obtained data pertaining to the subculture of the women as well as information on some aspects of ritual, art and other major activities. Mrs. Herskovits co-authored several articles and four books with Melville Herskovits, including "Rebel Destiny" (1934), "Suriname Folk-lore" (1936), "Trinidad Village" (1947) and "Dahomean Narrative" (1958). In 1966 she edited "The New World Negro," a collection of papers by Herskovits and in 1973 "Cultural Relativism," another collection of his writings. With a background in literature and French, Mrs. Herskovits taught African literature at Northwestern University for many years. She died in 1972 in Evanston, Illinois.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of: Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits papers, 1902-1972. Papers can be found in the Manuscript & Rare Books Division (Sc MG 261). Photographs can be found in the Photographs and Prints Division. Art and artifacts can be found in the Art and Artifacts Division,

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Research call number

1. Sc MIRS Herskovits 1986-63