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El hombre y sus obras/ Man and his Deeds: La ciencia de la antropologia cultural

Product Description: Estudio considerado un clsico en el rea de la antropologa social; se centra en el anlisis de la cultura: su naturaleza y estructuracin, los materiales que la integran, sus aspectos y su dinmica; con brillantez nos muestra el vasto panorama de culturas sencillas y complejas, antiguas y modernas...read more

By Melville J. Herskovits

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9789681607371 | Reprint edition (Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 2007), cover price $25.99 | About this edition: Estudio considerado un clsico en el rea de la antropologa social; se centra en el anlisis de la cultura: su naturaleza y estructuracin, los materiales que la integran, sus aspectos y su dinmica; con brillantez nos muestra el vasto panorama de culturas sencillas y complejas, antiguas y modernas.

Dahomean Narrative: A Cross-Cultural Analysis

Product Description: When this book was first published in 1958, Melville Herskovits, with his wife and collaborator, Frances, had spent over twenty years studying the social networks, religion, music, and oral traditions of the peoples of West Africa and their descendants in the New World...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Frances S. Herskovits, Melville Jean Herskovits (editor) and J. Melville

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9780810116504 | Northwestern Univ Pr, July 1, 1998, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: When this book was first published in 1958, Melville Herskovits, with his wife and collaborator, Frances, had spent over twenty years studying the social networks, religion, music, and oral traditions of the peoples of West Africa and their descendants in the New World.

The Myth of the Negro Past

Identifies stereotypes used to support racism, examines the misconception that Blacks had been stripped of their cultural heritage by slavery, and shows the influence of African culture on modern Black America

By Melville Jean Herskovits

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9780807009055 | Reprint edition (Beacon Pr, March 1, 1990), cover price $31.00 | About this edition: Identifies stereotypes used to support racism, examines the misconception that Blacks had been stripped of their cultural heritage by slavery, and shows the influence of African culture on modern Black America

9780807054758 | Beacon Pr, June 1, 1958, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: An ethno-historical anthropology of the African heritage of the American Negroes, invalidating the hypothesis that the Negro lived in a cultural vacuum.

Rebel Destiny: Among the Bush Negroes of Dutch Guiana

By Francis Herskovits and Melville Jean Herskovits

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9780839001409 | Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1975, cover price $26.50

Asante in the Nineteenth Century: The Structure and Evolution of a Political Order