Africanisms

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" Africanisms "
Stephan Palmié

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1063814
Doc. No	:	LA107443
Call No	:	‭10.1163/18725465-01101005‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Stephan Palmié
Title & Author	:	Africanisms [Article]\ Stephan Palmié
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	African Diaspora
Date	:	2019
Volume/ Issue Number	:	11/1-2
Page No	:	17–34
Abstract	:	This essay attempts to chart the career of the concept of ‘Africanisms’ in the anthropology and history of the African Diaspora in the Americas. After surveying the origins of the concept, I focus on the role of Melville J. Herskovits’ highly influential mobilisation of the concept, its major mid-20th century critiques, and a highly influential late 20th century reaction to the terms of these debates. I will conclude by indicating how Africanist historians have come to repurpose this concept around the turn of the millennium, and how more recent scholarship might indicate the end of its usefulness as an analytical category.
Descriptor	:	African Studies
Descriptor	:	Americas
Descriptor	:	cultural transmission
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	Herskovits
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Descriptor	:	Suriname
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/18725465-01101005‬