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Name: Melville Jean Herskovits
Birth Date: September 10, 1895
Death Date: February 25, 1963
Place of Birth: Belefontaine, Ohio, United States
Place of Death: Evanston, Illinois, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: anthropologist

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Biography of Melville Jean Herskovits
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The American anthropologist Melville Jean Herskovits (1895-1963) is famous for his research on Africa and his pioneer studies in African American ethnology. Melville Herskovits was born in Belefontaine, Ohio, on Sept. 10, 1895. He received his...


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Melville Jean Herskovits (September 10, 1895 in Bellefontaine, Ohio - February 25, 1963 in Evanston, Illinois) was an American anthropologist who firmly established African and African American studies in American academia. He received his Ph.D. in...


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The International Journal of African Historical Studies
Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge
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Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge. By Jerry Gershenhorn. Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska, 2004. Pp. xvii, 337; 12 illustrations. $65.00/£49.95 cloth. Gershenhorn presents us with an "intellectual biography" of Herskovits that...
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