the Negro Past, 1941 Trinidad Village, 1947, with Frances Herskovits Man and His Works: The Science of Cultural Anthropology, 1948 Les bases de L'Anthropologie Culturelle, Payot, Paris, 1952 Dahomean Narrative: A Cross-Cultural Analysis, 1958, with Frances Herskovits Continuity and Change in African Culture, 1959 The Human Factor in Changing Africa, 1962 Economic Transition in Africa, 1964 References Further reading Alan P. Merriam, 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 (University of Nebraska Press, 2004). . Jerry Gershenhorn, "Africa and the Americas: Life and Work of Melville Herskovits", in Bérose - Encyclopédie internationale des histoires de l’anthropologie, 2017 Samuel J. Redman. Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2016. . External links Melville J. Herskovits Papers, Northwestern University Archives, Evanston, Illinois Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness (2009), a documentary from California Newsreel Cultural Contributions of Americans with Roots in Slovakia Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies Northwestern University Program of African Studies Northwestern University Department of Anthropology "Melville Herskovits", National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir American Africanists Jewish American social scientists University of Chicago alumni Northwestern University faculty Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni American people of Slovak-Jewish descent 1895 births 1963 deaths United States Army soldiers United States Army personnel of World War I People from Bellefontaine, Ohio Jewish anthropologists Jewish philosophers American Jews 20th-century American anthropologists American Anthropologist editors 20th-century American Jews Presidents of the American Folklore Society Historians of Haiti Presidents of the African Studies Association