Field Station Bahia : : Brazil in the Work of Lorenzo Dow Turner, E. Franklin Frazier and Frances and Melville Herskovits, 1935-1967 / / Livio Sansone.

"This book offers a new perspective on the making of Afro-Brazilian, African-American and African studies through the interrelated trajectory of E. Franklin Frazier, Lorenzo Dow Turner, Frances and Melville Herskovits in Brazil. The book compares the style, network and agenda of these different...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden : : Brill,, [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Africa Multiple Series
Physical Description:1 online resource (297 pages)
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Summary:"This book offers a new perspective on the making of Afro-Brazilian, African-American and African studies through the interrelated trajectory of E. Franklin Frazier, Lorenzo Dow Turner, Frances and Melville Herskovits in Brazil. The book compares the style, network and agenda of these different and yet somehow converging scholars, and relates them to the Brazilian intellectual context, especially Bahia, which showed in those days much less density and organization than the US equivalent. It is therefore a double comparison: between four Americans and between Americans and scholars based in Brazil"--
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9004527168
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Livio Sansone.