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
Deleted image removed Image Herskovits.jpg thumb Infobox scientist name Melville J. Herskovits image Replace this image male.svg image size 150px caption Melville J. Herskovits birth date September 10 ... bot author abbrev zoo influences influenced prizes religion footnotes signature Melville Jean Herskovits ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 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 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 Living people Category American academics Category American writers Category Somalists US academic stub ... more details
Infobox library library name The 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 The 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. The library succeeded the Charles Deering Library as the main library on campus. The Deering Library was connected to the main library through construction, and continues to house the University s special collections. ref Building View, Northwestern Architecture University Library, Northwestern University Archives http www.library.northwestern.edu archives exhibits architecture building.php?bid 27 ref Until the building s completion in 1970, the Deering Library , now connected to the University Library, served as the primary library for the Evanston campus. Along with the other institutions in the Committee on Institutional Cooperation , the Northwestern 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 ... 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
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
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
Multiple issues BLP sources 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 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
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
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
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
List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1937. 1937 U.S. and Canadian Fellows Donald Keith Adams , Deceased. Psychology 1937. Edward D. Andrews , Deceased. U.S. History 1937. Robert Ardrey , Deceased. Drama 1937. Eric Glendinning Ball , Deceased. Biochemistry 1937, 1958. Charles Henry Behre, Jr , Deceased. Earth Science 1937. Ahron Ben Shmuel , Deceased. Fine Arts 1937, 1938. Richard Palmer Blackmur , Deceased. Literary Criticism 1937, 1938. Sydney William Britton , Deceased. Biology 1937, 1938. Lawrence Olin Brockway , Deceased. Chemistry 1937. Sterling Allen Brown , Deceased. Poetry 1937. Ralph Droz Casey , Deceased. Political Science 1937. Stewart Chaney , Deceased. Theatre Arts 1937. Harwood Lawrence Childs , Deceased. Political Science 1937, 1946. Harold Lewis Cook , Deceased. Poetry 1937. Lucy Driscoll , Deceased. Fine Arts Research 1937. Lu Duble , Deceased. Fine Arts 1937, 1938. Frank Whitson Fetter , Deceased. Economics 1937. Ross Lee Finney , Deceased. Music Composition 1937, 1947. Holden Furber , Deceased. British History 1937. William Gropper , Deceased. Fine Arts 1937. George Grosz , Deceased. Fine Arts 1937, 1938. Earl Jefferson Hamilton , Deceased. Economics 1937. Melville J. Herskovits , Deceased. Anthropology 1937. Joe Jones artist Joe Jones , Deceased. Fine Arts 1937. Ronold W. P. King , Gordon McKay Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics, Harvard University 1937, 1957. Kaj Klitgaard , Deceased. Fine Arts Research 1937. Samuel Noah Kramer , Deceased. Near Eastern Studies 1937, 1938, 1961. John Life La Monte , Deceased. Medieval History 1937. Ernst Levy jurist Ernst Levy , Deceased. Classics 1937. Dorothy Bethurum Loomis , Deceased. Medieval Literature 1937. Appointed as Bethurum, Dorothy. Robert Guyn McBride , Composer Professor Emeritus of Music, University of Arizona 1937. Hans Mueller physicist Hans Mueller , Deceased. Physics 1937. Max Norton , Deceased. Non Fiction 1937. aka Max Nomad . Frederic Prokosch , Deceased. Fiction 1937. Sonia Raiziss ... more details
Scott Straus is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International relations International Studies at University of Wisconsin Madison in the United States . He studied for a BA in English at Dartmouth College and received his PhD from University of California, Berkeley on the Rwandan Genocide . ref name Marquez Garcia cite news url http www.sfgate.com cgi bin article.cgi?f c a 2002 04 07 MN192568.DTL title Rwanda Aftermath of Genocide last Marquez Garcia first Sandra date 7 April 2002 work San Francisco Chronicle accessdate 4 February 2010 ref ref name CV cite web url http users.polisci.wisc.edu straus Straus 20CV 207 2008.pdf title Scott Straus publisher University of Wisconsin Madison accessdate 2009 11 02 ref His research focuses on genocide , violence , human rights and African politics . He was previously a freelance journalist based in Africa, ref name Agha cite news url http www.pe.com localnews hemet stories PE News Local D rwanda29.134dcc89.html title Higher purpose drives desire to help last Agha first Marisa coauthors Wells Miller, Bettye date 29 March 2006 work The Press Enterprise California The Press Enterprise accessdate 4 February 2010 ref and in 2000 was a Visiting Fellow at Institut d tudes Politiques de Paris . ref name CV Straus is author of The Order of Genocide Race, Power, and War in Rwanda Cornell University Press, 2006 , which won the 2006 Award for Excellence in Political Science and Government from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers , an honorable mention in the African Studies Association s 2007 Melville J. Herskovits Award, and Choice Current Reviews for Academic Libraries Choice magazine s Outstanding Academic Title award for 2007. ref name CV ref name Book cite web url http www.cornellpress.cornell.edu cup detail.taf?ti id 4587 title The Order of Genocide Race, Power, and War in Rwanda publisher Cornell University Press accessdate 2009 11 02 ref His other books are A ... more details
Studies Program. While at Northwestern he studied under Melville J. Herskovits . Warren s later work would be influenced by Herskovits concept of cultural relativism . While at Northwestern Warren ... the chronology of culture on the San Diego coast, and reflects the influence of Herskovits on Warren ... more details
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