The New World Negro

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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.