Life in a Haitian Valley

Herskovitz, Melville J., Life in a Haitian Valley, with an introd. by Edward Brathwaite, Garden City New York: Double Day & Company, Inc., 1971.

From the inside cover of the paperback:

Melville J. Herskovitz, founding member and first president of the African Studies Association, occupied the first professional chair of African Affairs ever established in the United States. He taught anthropology at Columbia, Howard and Northwestern University, where in 1947 he assumed directorship of African Studies. For research in African and African derived cultures, Dr. Herskovitz traveled to Dutch Guyana, West Africa, Haiti, Trinidad, Brazil, and often and extensively through sub-Saharan Africa.