The New World Negro: Selected Papers in Afro-American Studies
Melville J. Herskovits
Published by Minerva Press, 1969. Softcover 370pp. Minor rubbing to wrappers. Near Fine.
Herskovits regarded acculturation as a process of mutual exchange rather than a matter of members of minority groups taking over the cultural elements of a dominant majority. Herskovits also insisted that the study of culture be holistic, and that the arts and values of a people be given full weight.
The volume is divided into eight major sections entitled The Afroamerican Field-A Laboratory for the Study of Man; Theory and Method; Ethnohistory-The Laboratory Control in Studies of Acculturation; Ethno-psychology; The Arts; Cult Life in Brazil; The World View of an Urban Community-Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana; and Reinterpretations.
