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Melville Herskovits
Melville Herskovits was an American anthropologist who founded the first major African studies programme in the United States at Northwestern University in 1948. His two-volume "Dahomey: An Ancient West African Kingdom" (1938) was based on fieldwork in the 1930s, and his "The Myth of the Negro Past" (1941) traced African cultural survivals in the Americas.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Melville Herskovits. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/melville-herskovits
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