African retention

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

anthropologist

innovator in the field of

African-American Studies

Black studies

academic

scientific organization

National Academy of Sciences

American Association for the Advancement of Science

ethnography

cultural anthropology

World War I

anthropology

is the idea that african American cultural forms (in the caribbean) actually retain many things from Africa.

in the famous Frazier-Herskovits debate, Herkovitz claimed that African Americans retained many things from AfricaHerkovits argues that describes three ways in which African cultural forms in the Caribbean family survived slavery. 1. Survivals: cultural forms closely resembling the original african forms. 2. Syncretisims: cultural forms that closely resemble originals (i.e. catholic saints replacing african deities), 3. Reinterpretations: traditional forms are reinterepreted in the new environment.

Melville Herskovits

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