Herskovits

Proper noun

Meaning

Herskovits (plural Herskovitses)

A surname.

Examples

Garrett Hardin 's article, outlining the "tragedy of the commons", as well as Melville Herskovits ' "cattle complex" helped to influence ecologists and policy makers about the harm Maasai pastoralists were causing to savannah rangelands. Source: Internet

Melville Herskovits prepared a draft "Statement on Human Rights" which Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association revised, submitted to the Commission on Human Rights, and then published. Source: Internet

Thank you for the excellent op-ed by Annette Herskovits in the Feb. 11 Berkeley Daily Planet comparing the assault on Gaza with her own experiences as a child hiding out from the Nazis. Source: Internet

Thus, Boas's student Melville Herskovits summed up the principle of cultural relativism thus: "Judgements are based on experience, and experience is interpreted by each individual in terms of his own enculturation." Source: Internet

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