Abstract
DR. HEJRSKOVITS, as students of current anthropo logical literature are aware, has been engaged for some time in studying the cultural status of the African Negro, with special reference to what is sometimes known in America as the Negro problem. With this objective he has worked in West Africa; and has made a valuable study of the American Negro and the results of Negro crossing in the United States. In the course of his investigations, he has visited the communities of the Bush Negroes on the Suriname River in Dutch Guiana, which were formed after the rebellion of Negro slaves some hundred and fifty years ago. The members of these communities recreated something of their native African culture and this they have preserved in a modified but characteristic form ever since.
Rebel Destiny: Among the Bush Negroes of Dutch Guiana.
By Melville J. Herskovits Frances S. Herskovits. (Whittlesey House Publication.). Pp. xvii + 366 + 15 plates. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1934.) 12s. 6d. net.
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[Short Notices]. Nature 134, 613 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134613b0
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