William Bascom

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William Bascom is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, Northwestern University , Northwestern University, University of Wisconsin–Madison, University of Cambridge

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PhD Anthropology Northwestern University
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According to Wikipedia, William R. Bascom was an award-winning American folklorist, anthropologist, and museum director. He was a specialist in the art and culture of West Africa and the African Diaspora, especially the Yoruba of Nigeria.

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Four Functions of Folklore (1954) (281)
The Forms of Folklore: Prose Narratives (1965) (267)
The Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria (1969) (180)
Teh Esusu: A Credit Institution Of The Yoruba (1952) (97)
Urbanization Among the Yoruba (1955) (97)
Ifa Divination: Communication Between Gods and Men in West Africa (1969) (85)
Sixteen Cowries: Yoruba Divination from Africa to the New World (1980) (82)
The Principle Of Seniority In The Social Structure Of The Yoruba (1942) (63)
The sociological role of the Yoruba cult-group (1944) (63)
Ponapean Prestige Economy (1948) (61)
Ponape : a pacific economy in transition (1965) (54)
Folklore and Anthropology (1953) (47)
Social Status, Wealth and Individual Differences among the Yoruba (1951) (37)
The Focus of Cuban Santeria (1950) (34)
African Dilemma Tales. (1977) (32)
Yoruba Food (1951) (27)
Some Aspects of Yoruba Urbanism (1962) (26)
Open Frontiers: The Mobility of Art in Black Africa (1973) (22)
The Sanctions of Ifa Divination (1941) (21)
African Folktales and Sculpture (1953) (20)
Urbanism as a Traditional African Pattern (1959) (19)
SUBSISTENCE FARMING ON PONAPE (1949) (19)
African Art in Cultural Perspective. An Introduction (1973) (17)
Chaga Childhood. A Description of Indigenous Education in an East African Tribe (1942) (16)
The Myth-Ritual Theory (1957) (13)
Folklore Research in Africa (1964) (12)
ACCULTURATION AMONG THE GULLAH NEGROES (1941) (12)
The Urban African and his World (1963) (11)
The Relationship of Yoruba Folklore to Divining (1943) (11)
Yoruba Cooking (1951) (10)
Shango in the New World (1972) (10)
Literary Style in Yoruba Riddles (1949) (9)
Two Studies of Ifa Divination (1966) (8)
Handbook Of West African Art (1953) (8)
The Cow-Tail Switch, and Other West African Stories (1947) (7)
Folklore, Verbal Art, and Culture (1973) (7)
Stylistic Features of Proverbs, a Comment (1965) (6)
Main problems of stability and change in tradition (1958) (6)
Tribalism, Nationalism, and Pan-Africanism (1962) (6)
21. IFA Divination: Comments on the Paper by J. D. Clarke, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, LXIX, 1939, 235-256 (1942) (5)
Ponape: The Cycle of Empire (1950) (5)
Drums and Shadows (1942) (5)
Ponape: the Tradition of Retaliation (1950) (4)
West Africa and the Complexity of Primitive Cultures (1948) (4)
The Main Problems of Stability and Change in Tradition (1959) (4)
Malinowski's Contributions to the Study of Folklore (1983) (4)
Contributions to folkloristics (1981) (4)
Yoruba Concepts of the Soul (1960) (4)
Cinderella in Africa (1972) (3)
AFRICAN MATERIAL CULTURE, TECHNOLOGY, AND ECOLOGICAL ADAPTATION (1962) (3)
253. Yoruba Urbanism: A Summary (1958) (3)
Perhaps Too Much to Chew (1981) (2)
FERNANDO ORTIZ 1881–1969 (1970) (2)
Ethnology: Ifá: An Exposition of Ifá Literary Corpus. ‘Wande Abimbola (1978) (1)
Clever Hands of the African Negro (1947) (1)
African arts : an exhibition at the Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology of the University of California, Berkeley, April 6/October 22, 1967 (1967) (1)
Rejoinder to Jones and Preston (1976) (1)
West and Central Africa (1949) (1)
Folklore and the Africanist (1973) (1)
Obstacles to Self-Government (1956) (1)
An African Aristocracy. Rank Among the Swazi. Hilda Kuper (1950) (1)
Cross River Smoke, etc. — Poisoned Food in Sky (1975) (1)
OBITUARY: RICHARD ALAN WATERMAN 1914–1971 (1974) (1)
Dog Finds Ring — Revenge on Chief (1975) (0)
Rejoinder to Hyman (1958) (0)
Drums of the Yoruba of Nigeria@@@Voice of the Congo (1955) (0)
BOOK NOTES: RECENT BIBLIOGRAPHIES: Anthropological Bibliography of Negro Africa, H. A. Wieschoff (1949) (0)
AFRICA AND ASIA: Bantu Heritage. H. P. Junod (1941) (0)
Nigerian Folk Tales: As Told by Olawale Idewu and Omotayo Adu. Barbara K. and Warren S. Walker (Eds.) (1962) (0)
ETHNOLOGY: Manioc in Africa. William O. Jones (1961) (0)
NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA: The Yoruba Husband-Wife Code. Edward Ward (1939) (0)
Comment: African Arts and Social Control (1962) (0)
Acculturation among the Gullah Negroes - eScholarship (1941) (0)
The Zande Trickster. E. E. Evans‐Pritchard (1968) (0)
NORTH AMERICA: Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies Among the Georgia Coastal Negroes (1942) (0)
Some Aspects of Yoruba Urbanism - eScholarship (1962) (0)
The fall of old Oyo or Katanga (1959) (0)
Rejoinder to Raglan and Bidney (1958) (0)
On Alcoholism among the Northwest Coast Indians: Rejoinder (1956) (0)
Bundle of Troubles and Other Tarheel Tales by Workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of North Carolina (1945) (0)
Tribal Map of Negro Africa: Map N and Tribal Key (1958) (0)
African Primitives. (Book Reviews: Tribes of the Liberian Hinterland) (1948) (0)
Book Review:Land, Labour and Diet in Northern Rhodesia. Audrey I. Richards (1941) (0)
Qba's ear : a Yoruba myth in Cuba and Brazil (1975) (0)
: The Fon and His Hundred Wives . Rebecca Reyher. ; Women of the Grassfields: A Study of the Economic Position of Women in Bamenda, British Cameroons . Phyllis M. Kaberry. (1955) (0)

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