Enter the new Negro. Cultural Dimensions of the Harlem Renaissance

Opis książki

The Harlem Renaissance, like the whole of African American culture, needs to be viewed not as a stable entity but as a dynamic process. Cultural anthropology sees dynamism and change in cultures as the basic concepts of its inquiry. Early twentieth-century cultural anthropologists, criticizing earlier concepts of stable, homogeneous forms of culture and their slow evolutionary features, introduced the idea of diffusionism as an attempt to understand the nature of culture in terms of the origin of culture traits and their spread from one society to another. Ze Wstępu.