Dahomean Narrative: A Cross-Cultural Analysis,

By Frances S. Herskovits, Melville J. Herskovits, Frances Herskovits

Book Overview

This new edition, published on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding by Melville Herskovits of the Program of African Studies at Northwestern University, brings back into print one of the classics in scholarly analysis and translation, written by one of the cultural anthropology. When this book was first published in 1958, Melville luminaries of American Herskovits, with his wife and collaborator, Frances, had spent over Twenty years studying the social networks, language, and oral traditions of the peoples of West Africa and their descendants in the New World. Dahomey, the major site of their African work, is in the country now known as the Republic of Benin.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810101181
• ISBN13: 9780810101180
• Release Date: January 1958
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 490 Pages
• Weight: 2.12 lbs.