The Herskovits Prize Melville J. Herskovits Award is an annual award given by the African Studies Association to the best scholarly work including translations on Africa published in English Language English in the previous year and distributed in the United States . Winners of the Herskovits Award ref cite web title Melville J. Herskovits Award Winners publisher African Studies Association url http www.africanstudies.org p cm ld fid 28 ref 1965 Ruth Schachter Morganthau for Political Parties in French Speaking West Africa 1966 Leo Kuper for An African Bourgeoisie 1967 Jan Vansina for Kingdoms of the Savanna 1968 Herbert Weiss for Political Protest in the Congo 1969 Paul J. Bohannan , Laura Bohannan for Tiv economy 1970 Stanlake Samkange for Origins of Rhodesia 1971 Rene Lemarchand for Rwanda and Burundi 1972 Francis Deng for Tradition and Modernization 1973 Allen F. Isaacman for Mozambique The Africanization of a European Institution 1974 John N. Paden for Religion and Political Culture in Kano 1975 Elliott Skinner for African Urban Life 1975 Lansine Kaba for Wahhabiyya Islamic Reform and Politics in French West Africa 1976 Ivor Wilks for Asante in the Nineteenth Century The Structure and Evolution of a Political Order 1977 Crawford Young for Politics Cultural Pluralism 1978 William Y. Adams for Nubia Corridor to Africa 1979 Hoyt Alverson for Mind in the Heart of Darkness Value and Self Identity among the Tswana of Southern Africa 1980 Margaret Strobel for Muslim Women in Mombasa 1980 Richard B. Lee for The Dobe Ju Hoansi 1981 Gavin Kitching for Class and Economic Change in Kenya The Making of an African Petite Bourgeoisie 1981 Gwyn Prins for The Hidden Hippopotamus Reappraisal in African History The Early Colonial Experience in Western Zambia 1982 Frederick Cooper for From ... asa awards1.html HERSKOVITS African Studies Association Awards http www.lovethebook.com Awards.aspx?bookaward Herskovits Award Herskovits Award at lovethebook Category American literary awards ... more details
J. Herskovits birth date September 10, 1895 birth place Bellefontaine, Ohio death date February ... footnotes signature Melville Jean Herskovits September 10, 1895 February 25, 1963 was an American ... in African Americans in the 1900s. In 1927, Herskovits moved to Northwestern University as a full time anthropologist and established the Department of Anthropology in 1938. In 1934, Herskovits and his ... detailing the lives and voodoo practices of the inhabitants of Mirebalais during Herskovits three .... ref Herskovits, Melville J. Program of African Studies draft and partial revisions . Melville J. Herskovits Papers, Northwestern University Archives. Evanston, Illinois. Box 142, Folder 23. ref The Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University, established in 1954 ... http www.library.northwestern.edu africana about facts.html ref In 1957, Herskovits founded the African ... africana about herskovits.html ref Herskovits s controversial classic The Myth of the Negro Past ... lost all traces of their past when they were taken from Africa and enslaved in America. Herskovits ... of cultural relativism , particularly in his book Man and His Works . Melville Herskovits s position ... Kolchin, American Slavery , Penguin History, paperback edition, 40 ref After World War II , Herskovits ... Rebel Destiny, Among the Bush Negroes of Dutch Guiana , 1934, with Frances Herskovits Life in a Haitian ... Village , 1947, with Frances Herskovits Continuity and Change in African Culture , 1959 The Human ..., Melville Jean Herskovits, 1895 1963 , American Anthropologist , Vol. 66, No. 1, 1964, p. 83 109. Jerry Gershenhorn Melville J. Herskovits and the Racial Politics of Knowledge 2004 ISBN 0 8032 ... Melville J. Herskovits Papers, Northwestern University Archives, Evanston, Illinois http www.newsreel.org nav title.asp?tc CN0224 Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness a documentary from California ... in Slovakia http www.library.northwestern.edu africana about herskovits.html Melville J. Herskovits ... more details
The Agbado River is a river of Benin . ref Rand McNally, The New International Atlas , 1993. ref It flows in Maxi Territory to the north of Abomey . ref name HerskovitsHerskovits1964 cite book last1 Herskovits first1 Melville Jean last2 Herskovits first2 Frances Shapiro title An outline of Dahomean religious belief url http books.google.com books?id pbMqAAAAYAAJ accessdate 30 April 2012 year 1964 publisher Kraus page 63 ref References Reflist Benin geo stub coord missing Benin Category Rivers of Benin ... more details
Orphan date January 2011 Adji boto is a traditional mancala game played by the saramaccans , i.e., the Maroon people maroons who live on the banks of the Saramacca River Saramacca river, in Suriname . It is similar to some mancalas played in West Africa, especially Benin , and could be regarded as a variation of the Wari game Wari game, which is the most common mancala game found in the Americas. The game plays an important role in the social life of saramaccans, and it is especially connected to funeral rituals. After someone s death, the game is played for the ten days before burial at night, the board is left outside in the open so that the yorkas spirits of the dead can play with it. The intent is to lure the spirits into the village so that they will eventually accept the dead s spirit in their community. Board can only be manufactured by widow s. References M.J. Herskovits, Adjiboto, an African Game of the Bush Negroes of Dutch Guiana . In Man A Monthly Record of the Royal Anthropological Institute , 1929,. 29 90 122 127. M.J. Herskovits, Wari in the New World . In Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute , 1932, 62 23 37. External links http mancala.wikia.com wiki Adji boto Rules of the game Use dmy dates date January 2011 Category Traditional mancala games Category Surinamese culture game stub es Adji boto it Adji boto zh ... more details
Abdi Ismail Samatar born 1950 is Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota . ref Abdi Samatar Geography University of Minnesota. Department of Geography University of Minnesota. University of Minnesota, 4 September 2009. Web. 27 May 2010. http www.geog.umn.edu people profile.php?UID samat001 . ref He is the author of An African Miracle published by Heinemann publisher Heinemann that was a finalist for the 2000 Herskovits Prize . References Reflist External links worldcat id lccn n88 86204 Use dmy dates date September 2010 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Samatar, Abdi Ismail ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Samatar, Abdi Ismail Category 1950 births Category Living people Category American academics Category American writers Category Somalists US academic stub ... more details
Infobox library library name Northwestern University Library library logo Image NorthwesternUniversityLibrary.jpg 250px location Evanston, IL coordinates coord 42.0531 87.6742 type landmark region US IL display inline,title established 1970 num branches 1 collection size 4.6 Million annual circulation pop served Population of area the library provides service to. members Cardholders budget director num employees website http www.library.northwestern.edu Northwestern University Library is the principal library for the Evanston campus of Northwestern University . The library holds 4.6 million volumes, making it the 11th largest library at a private university. ref name GBS June 6, 2007 Google Project Will Create Digital Repository for Select University Library Collections http www.northwestern.edu newscenter stories 2007 06 google.html ref The building was designed in brutalist style by Walter Netsch of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill . Construction started in 1966 and the library opened in 1970. University Library succeeded Deering Library as the main library on campus and is connected to it. ref Building View, Northwestern Architecture University Library, Northwestern University Archives http www.library.northwestern.edu archives exhibits architecture building.php?bid 27 ref Along with the other institutions in the Committee on Institutional Cooperation , University Library joined the Google Book Search project on June 6, 2007. ref name GBS Library Collections Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies Established in 1954, the Herskovits Library is the largest separate Africana collection in existence. The Music Library Contains extensive holdings of printed music and archival materials documenting music composed since 1945. Transportation Library The Transportation Library is one of the largest transportation information centers in the world with a collection of over 450,000 items. The Northwestern University Art Collection. Deering Library Charles Deering McCo ... more details
and honors 1971, Melville J. Herskovits Award for Rwanda and Burundi , African Studies Association ref cite web url http www.africanstudies.org ?page herskovitz award winners title Melville J. Herskovits ... more details
David Goodman Mandelbaum August 22, 1911, Chicago April 19, 1987 was an American anthropologist. He majored in anthropology at Northwestern University , studying with Melville J. Herskovits . His major published work dealt with the Plains Cree people of Saskatchewan , Canada and he was well regarded for his study of society in India. He taught at University of Minnesota 1941 1946 , University of California 1946 1978 , and was an active professor emeritus at the latter until his death in 1987. Literary works The Plains Cree an Ethnographic, Historical, and Comparative study , New York 1940 Ams Pr Inc. ISBN 978 0404156268 Alcohol and Culture , Current Anthropology, Vol. 6, No. 3. Chicago June, 1965 The University of Chicago Press on behalf of Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. http www.jstor.org stable 2739922 Society in India , Berkley 1972 University of California Press. ISBN 978 0520018952 See also Fine Day his principal informant on The Plains Cree External links http www.oac.cdlib.org findaid ark 13030 tf400003gz Guide to the David Goodman Mandelbaum Papers at The Bancroft Library http content.cdlib.org xtf view?docId hb6z09p0jh&doc.view frames&chunk.id div00029&toc.depth 1&toc.id University of California In Memoriam, 1987 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Mandelbaum, David G. ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1911 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1987 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Mandelbaum, David G. Category 1911 births Category 1987 deaths Category American anthropologists Category Guggenheim Fellows Category Northwestern University alumni Category University of Minnesota faculty US anthropologist stub US academic scientist stub ... more details
BLP sources date November 2009 Jeffrey I. Herbst is the 16th president of Colgate University , ref name wktv cite news title Herbst named 16th President of Colgate University url http www.wktv.com news local 70214622.html accessdate 30 July 2010 newspaper WKTV date November 16, 2009 ref taking office July 1, 2010. He was the former Provost education Provost , Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, and professor of political science at Miami University . He received his Bachelor of Arts B.A. from Princeton University in 1983, Master of Arts postgraduate M.A. , M.Phil from Yale University in 1985, and Ph.D. in 1987 also from Yale University Yale . He is married to Sharon Polansky, with whom he has three children, Matthew, Spencer, and Alana. Herbst has also written extensively on political and international affairs in Africa, an area of inquiry in which he has published two books. States and Power in Africa , received the Gregory M. Luebbert Prize for the best book in comparative politics for the year 2000 from the American Political Science Association in August 2001. It was also a finalist for the 2001 Melville J. Herskovits Award for the best book in African studies awarded by the African Studies Association. ref cite web title Biographies Jeffrey Herbst url http www.colgate.edu about presidentjeffreyherbst biography.html work Colgate University publisher Colgate U. accessdate 6 June 2011 ref References Reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Herbst, Jeffrey, I. ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Herbst, Jeffrey, I. Category Miami University faculty Category American academics Category Living people US academic administrator stub ... more details
David Hershkovits was raised in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated with a BA in Literature from Yeshiva University and a Masters from Penn State University. After teaching at the University of New Orleans and writing for the New Orleans Courier and New Orleans Magazine, he returned to New York, working in various editorial roles including Assistant Managing Editor of the Soho Weekly News. In 1984, together with fellow Soho News editor Kim Hastreiter , David founded Paper magazine PAPER magazine which started out as a black and white fold out poster. Today David is the co founder of PAPER Communications, as well as serving as both the founding editor and publisher of PAPER magazine and PAPERMAG.com and co owner of ExtraExtra Creative. ref cite news last Chang first Bee Shyuan title Looking Towards Print for a List That Lures url http www.nytimes.com 2011 09 15 fashion extra extra papers event planning affiliate ny fashion week.html?ref fashion accessdate 20 September 2011 newspaper New York Times date 14 September 2011 ref David Hershkovits has published articles on pop culture and politics in numerous newspapers and magazines, including GQ, Vanity Fair, the German magazine Max, High Times, The New York Post, The Daily News and Newsday. He currently writes a monthly column in PAPER called Eyespy. ref cite web last Herskovits first David title EyeSpy url http www.papermag.com eye spy publisher Paper Magazine accessdate 20 September 2011 Dead link date September 2011 ref References reflist Use dmy dates date September 2011 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Hershkovits, David ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION American journalist DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Hershkovits, David Category Year of birth missing living people Category Living people Category People from Brooklyn Category American journalists ... more details
scholarship. ref name book Later, in 1982, Sylvia and Michael Cole received the Herskovits Prize Melville J. Herskovits Prize in 1982 for The Psychology of Literacy ref name amazon.com . In a powerful ... more details
on each hand, if you work well, I will put you among men, instead of among animals. ref Herskovits & Herskovits ... said to him You will always be Monkey, you will never walk erect. ref Herskovits & Herskovits ... Interconnections Cambridge University Press Herskovits, Melville Jean, and Frances Shapiro Herskovits ... more details
Harold K. Hal Schneider 1925 1987 , a seminal figure in economic anthropology , was born in 1925, in Aberdeen, South Dakota . He attended elementary and secondary school in St. Paul, Minnesota , and did his undergraduate work at Macalester College and Seabury Western Theological Seminary , receiving a bachelor s degree in sociology, with a minor in biology, from Macalester in 1949. He then went to Northwestern University , where he was a student of Melville Herskovits , basing his dissertation on field research among the Pokot of Kenya . ref name Winans 1988 415 Winans 1988 415 ref Upon receiving his Ph.D. in anthropology in 1953, he moved to Lawrence University , where he eventually became chairman of the anthropology department. In 1970 he moved to Indiana University , where remained until he died in 1987. ref name Winans 1988 415 Schneider continued to focus on East Africa in his field work, and was especially influenced by his study of the Turu in Tanzania . His mentor, Melville Herskovits, had also focused on East African pastoral peoples, and in this, as well as in Schneider s continued interest in morality and aesthetics, the pupil followed the teacher. ref Winans 1988 415 417 ref Active in creating the nascent field of economic anthropology, he was the first president of the Society for economic anthropology Society for Economic Anthropology , serving from 1980 until 1982. His focus on economic anthropology is first evident in his dissertation, on the ways in which cattle were used by a pastoral people in East Africa. His early contribution was as an articulate advocate for the Economic anthropology Formalist formalist perspective in economic anthropology. Schneider thought it useful to view human behavior as optimizing behavior, in the tradition of neoclassical economics , and thought that this optimizing behavior manifested itself even among peoples without money or markets. Schneider was compelled to argue forcefully against the prevailing Substantivism s ... more details
The following events related to sociology occurred in the 1940s . 1940 Marc Bloch s Feudal Society is published. Marc Bloch s Strange Defeat a Statement of Evidence is published. Franz Boas s Race, Language and Culture is published. E. E. Evans Pritchard Sir Edward Evans Pritchard s The Nuer is published. Meyer Fortes s African Political Systems is published. David V. Glass s Population Policies and Movements in Europe is published. Walter Benjamin s On the concept of history is published. Robert M. MacIver serves as president of the American Sociological Association ASA . Births Claus Offe George Ritzer Deaths September 27 Walter Benjamin 1941 Melville J. Herskovits Melville Jean Herskovits The Myth of the Negro Past is published. George Homans English villages in the Thirteenth Century is published. Harold Lasswell s The Garrison State is published. Herbert Marcuse s Reason and Revolution is published. Karl Marx s Grundrisse is published. Pitirim Sorokin s Social and Cultural Dynamics is published. William Lloyd Warner s Social Life of a Modern Community is published. 1942 William Beveridge s Beveridge Report Social Insurance and Allied Services is published. James Burnham s The Managerial revolution is published Stuart C. Dodd s Dimensions of Society is published. Georges Gurvitch s Sociology of Law is published. Siegfried Frederick Nadel s A Black Byzantium is published. Franz Leopold Neumann s Behemoth The Structure and Practice of National Socialism is published. Wilhelm Reich s The Mass Psychology of Fascism is published. Joseph Schumpeter s Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy is published. Dwight Sanderson serves as president of the American Sociological Association . Births Michael Mann sociologist Michael Mann February 9 Manuel Castells Deaths May 16 Bronislaw Malinowski December 22 Franz Boas 1943 Jean Paul Sartre s Being and Nothingness is published. 1944 William Beveridge s Full Employment and a Free Society is published. W. E. B. Du Bois Jacob and Esau ... more details
The Bayside Cemetery is a cemetery in Queens , New York . It is one of the oldest Jewish cemetery Jewish cemeteries in New York City . It was founded in the mid nineteenth century, and among those buried there are many military veterans from the American Civil War Civil War onward. It is bordered on the east by Acacia Cemetery and on the west by Mokom Sholom Cemetery. Both Acacia Cemetery and Mokom Sholom Cemetery are well maintained by their respective administrations and professional ground crews. However, in the last several decades Bayside Cemetery has fallen into extensive disrepair. It is owned by Congregation Shaare Zedek New York City Congregation Shaare Zedek , which is located several miles away on the Upper West Side of Manhattan . The Congregation Shaare Zedek claims that the cost of maintaining Bayside Cemetery is more than the congregation can bear it used funds collected for the improvement of this desecrated cemetery to repair the roof on its synagogue. ref cite web url http site.baysidecemeterylitigation.com uploads Declaration of Leslie Francisco Dec 28 2008.pdf title Litigation Against Congregation Shaare Zedek ref Restoration and rejuvenation CAJAC The Community Association for Jewish At Risk Cemeteries has begun a major project to restore and maintain Bayside Cemetery. CAJAC, a non profit organization established to rescue and maintain Jewish cemeteries, has hired MC Landscaping to perform the major cleanup, while groups of volunteers led by Dr. Ronny Herskovits complement the professional efforts. The initial cleanup is set to be completed by November 2009. ref cite web url http www.facebook.com pages CAJAC The Community Association for Jewish At Risk Cemeteries 76314438341?v wall&viewas 755678071 title CAJAC Facebook Page ref update after 2009 11 30 References Reflist External links http maps.google.com maps?q Bayside Acacia Cemetery, Queens, NY&ll 40.677660, 73.854969&spn 0.007498,0.015044&t h&num 8&start 0&hl en Google Maps Link http www.szn ... more details
Willard Rhodes b. Deshler, Ohio Deshler , Ohio , 1901 d. Sun City, Arizona Sun City , Arizona , May 15, 1992 was an United States American Ethnomusicology ethnomusicologist . He is known for his extensive recording of Native Americans in the United States American Indian music between 1939 and 1952. Rhodes grew up in Dunkirk, Ohio and received A.B. and Bachelor of Music degrees from Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio . He received an M.A. from Columbia University in 1929. In France , he studied with Nadia Boulanger . From 1937 to 1969, he served as a professor at Columbia University, where he founded the graduate program in ethnomusicology, and co founded the Society for Ethnomusicology , serving as that organization s first president. He also conducted field recording in Zimbabwe , Nigeria , and India . His field recordings have been released by Folkways Records and the Library of Congress Recording Laboratory. A collection of Rhodes recordings and other materials is held by the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive. References Christensen, Dieter 1992 . Willard Rhodes 1901 1992. Yearbook for Traditional Music , vol. 24, pp. xii xiii. Korson, Rae, and Joseph C. Hickerson 1969 . The Willard Rhodes Collection of American Indian Music in the Archive of Folk Song. Ethnomusicology journal Ethnomusicology , vol. 13, no. 2 May 1969 , pp. 296 304. David P. McAllester McAllester, David P. 1993 . Obituary Willard Rhodes 1901 1992 . Ethnomusicology , vol. 37, no. 2 Spring 1993 , pp. 251 262. Rhodes, Willard 1952 . Acculturation in North American Indian Music. In Acculturation in the Americas Proceedings and Selected Papers of the 29th International Congress of Americanists , ed. Sol Tax, with an introduction by Melville J. Herskovits, p. 127 132. Chicago University of Chicago Press. Rhodes, Willard 1952 . Songs of American Indians Still Live. The New York Times , November 23, 1952, sec. 2, p. 7. External links http www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu ... more details
Image M ller Lyer illusion.svg thumb The M ller Lyer illusion . The lines ending in arrows seem shorter than those ending in a tail though all lines are of the same length. 200px Carpenteredness is an early theory in the psychology of perception , to explain cultural variations in the susceptibility to illusions such as the M ller Lyer illusion , where a line seems smaller if it has arrows on both sides, as opposed to a tail. History Around the turn of the century, W. H. R. Rivers had noted that natives of the Australian Murray Island, Queensland Murray Island were less susceptible to the Muller Lyer illusion ref Rivers 1901 The measurement of visual illusion Rep. Brit. Ass., p. 818 ref . Rivers suggested that this difference may be due to Europeans living in more rectilinear environments. Similar results were also observed by John Berry in his work on Eskimo groups 1968, 1971 . ref cite title Ecology, perceptual development and the M u ller Lyer illusion author Berry, JW journal British Journal of Psychology volume 59 number 3 pages 205 210 year 1968 ref . In 1965, following a debate between Donald T. Campbell and Melville J. Herskovits on whether culture can influence such basic aspects of perception such as the length of a line, they suggested that their student Marshall Segall investigate the problem. In their definitive paper of 1966, they investigated seventeen cultures and showed that people in different cultures differ substantially on how they experience the M ller Lyer stimuli. They write ref http psycnet.apa.org psycinfo 1967 05876 000 ref European and American city dwellers have a much higher percentage of rectangularity in their environments than non europeans and so are more susceptible to that illusion. They also used the word carpentered for the environments that Europeans mostly live in characterized by straight lines, right angles, and square corners. These conclusions were challenged in later work by Gustav Jahoda, who tested members of an Af ... more details
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