Melville J. Herskovits: Motor behavior and the imaging of Afro‐American culture1

Abstract Melville J. Herskovits (1895–1963) is widely regarded as the founder of Afro‐American anthropology. From the late 1920s to the early 1940s, he and his wife Frances produced an impressive body of research materials and scholarly publications on African and Afro‐American cultures, ‘virtually ... View More