Anténor Firmin and Haiti's contribution to anthropology

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ID3068079
AuthorsCarolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Carolyn Fluehr‐lobban (corresponding author)
Year2005
Issue1
Pages95-108
Publication date2005-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGradhiva (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0764-8928 • E-ISSN: 1760-849X
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/gradhiva.302
OpenAlexW1571749607
LanguageFR
Citations received8
References cited2

Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Anténor Firmin and Haiti's contribution to anthropology (1850-1911) - Anténor Firmin was an anthropologist who pioneered a critical study of race and physical anthropology and developed in his major work, De L'égalité des races humaines..., a vision of anthropology as an integrated study of humanity. The publication date of 1885 of De L'égalité des races humaines marks it as a pioneering text in anthropology and it is perhaps the first major work of anthropology written by a person of African descent. Although Firmin's tome was lost to Francophone anthropology, it was recognized not only in Haiti but also among Pan-Africanist scholars as an early work of négritude. Anténor Firmin also had a seminal impact on Jean Price-Mars, the 20th century founder of Haitian ethnology, and these ties extend further to the American founder of African and Afro-American anthropology, Melville Herskovits

Biological anthropology · Cultural anthropology · History of anthropology · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis

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