Fieldwork Footage (1928)

Fieldwork Footage (1928)

1928-01-08 United States of America 3 Min. PG-13
5.7 6 votes

Overview

Under the tutelage of anthropologist Franz Boas (her former Columbia professor) and Harlem Renaissance arts patron Charlotte Osgood Mason, Zora Neale Hurston spent nearly two years, from 1927 to 1929, studying the folkloric customs, work songs, spirituals, and vernacular language of African American communities along the River Road and from New Orleans to Florida.

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