Melville J. Herskovits

11.3k citations
63 papers · 2.3k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 19
Topics
African history and culture studies (4 papers)Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (3 papers)Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (2 papers)
Journals
ScienceSHILAP Revista de lepidopterologíaAmerican Sociological Review

In The Last Decade

Melville J. Herskovits

57 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

The Myth of the Negro Past196120261982200419611966100200300400

Peers

Melville J. Herskovits
Comparison fields: 5 of 138
  • Sociology and Political Science 733
  • Anthropology 379
  • Social Psychology 302
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 258
  • Cognitive Neuroscience 252
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All Works

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Some Problems of Land Tenure in Contemporary Africat
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Economic anthropology : readings in theory and analysis
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L'Afrique et les Africains : entre hier et demain
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L'héritage du noir, mythe et Réalite
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About Melville J. Herskovits

Melville J. Herskovits is a scholar working on Anthropology, Cultural Studies and Religious studies, having authored 63 papers that have together received 2.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include African history and culture studies (4 papers), Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (3 papers) and Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Anthropology (379 citations), Cultural Studies (173 citations) and Archeology (22 citations). Melville J. Herskovits has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Malaysia and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Marshall H. Segall, Donald T. Campbell, Raymond Firth, Frances S. Herskovits, Walter Goldschmidt, Harold K. Schneider, J. E. Goldthorpe, Mitchell Harwitz, Philip W. Porter and Monica Wilson. Their work appears in journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and American Sociological Review.

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