List of Famous people with last name Herskovits
Melville J. Herskovits
First Name Melville
Last Name Herskovits
Born on September 10, 1895
Born in United States of America, Ohio
Melville Jean Herskovits was an American anthropologist who helped establish African and African-American studies in American academia. He is known for exploring the cultural continuity from African cultures as expressed in African-American communities. He worked with his wife Frances (Shapiro) Herskovits, also an anthropologist, in the field in South America, the Caribbean and Africa. They jointly wrote several books and monographs.
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