| LC control no. | n 80067375 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963 |
| Variant(s) | Herskovits, M. J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963 Herskovits, Melville Jean, 1895-1963 Herskovitz, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1895-09-10 |
| Death date | 1963-02-25 |
| Place of birth | Bellefontaine (Ohio) |
| Place of death | Evanston (Ill.) |
| Affiliation | Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Department of Anthropology Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Program of African Studies Columbia University University of Chicago Howard University |
| Profession or occupation | Anthropologists Africanists Educators |
| Found in | His The cattle complex in East Africa, 1926. NUCMC data from Fisk Univ. Libr. for Johnson, C.S. Papers, 1870-1965 (Melville Herskovitz) Riemann Musiklexikon, 12. Aufl.: Ergänzungsband (Herskovits, Melville Jean; b. 9-10-1895, Bellefontaine; d. 2-25-63, Evanston; American anthropologist) Northwestern University Library website, viewed Sep. 23, 2013: About Melville J. Herskovits (founder of Northwestern University's Anthropology Dept. in 1938; founder of Northwestern's Program of African Studies in 1948; master's in 1921 in anthropology, Columbia University, began teaching there in 1921, Ph.D. in 1923; lectured at Columbia 1924-1927, named assoc. prof. at Howard University in 1925; moved to Northwestern University in 1927; did field work in Suriname, Benin, Brazil, Haiti, Ghana, Nigeria and Trinidad) Relativism and ambivalence in the work of M. J. Herskovits, 2000: p. 103 (Melville J. Herskovits; Melville Herskovits) Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century, accessed January 30, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Herskovits, Melville; Melville Jean Herskovits; anthropologist, educator; born 10 September 1895 in Bellfontaine, Ohio, United States. He earned a BA in History from University of Chicago (1920); an MA (1921) and a PhD (1923) in Anthropology from Columbia University. He taught at Howard University (1925-1927); established the Department of Anthropology and the Program of African Studies at Northwestern University (1961). He was a pioneer in African and African American studies in the United States. He died 25 February 1963 in Evanston, Illinois, United States) |
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