This writer called the differences between his own rotary club and the Business Men's Association of Harlem "imperceptible" in his article "The Dilemma of Social Pattern," which also suggests that blacks can challenge the dominant culture through their "emotional qualities." His contention regarding the use of pebbles for counting and census taking in Dahomey has been most
This writer called the differences between his own rotary club and the Business Men's Association of Harlem "imperceptible" in his article "The Dilemma of Social Pattern," which also suggests that blacks can challenge the dominant culture through their "emotional qualities." His contention regarding the use of pebbles for counting and census taking in Dahomey has been mostly discredited, but his coining of the term "socialized ambivalence" in reference to Haitian cultural behavior has had more lasting impact. He's best known for a book in which he debunked the titular false belief that the Black Man in America is a "man without a past," a work that helped him establish the first chair in African Studies at an American university. FTP name this cultural anthropologist associated with Northwestern University, the author of The Myth of the Negro Past.
This writer called the differences between his own rotary club and the Business Men's Association of Harlem "imperceptible" in his article "
Melville {Herskovits}