William Bascom
Biographic Data
| ID | 77244 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Bascom |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Bascom |
| SIGNATURE | BASCOM W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 91 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 406 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 91 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1939 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Appendix
Two decades after it was first published, a powerful oral epic from Madagascar is once again available to a global readership, in print and online.How to Read a Folktale: The Ibonia Epic from Madagascar is the story of a story; a compelling Malagasy tale of love and power, brought to life by Lee Haring.Throughout this carefully updated text, Haring is our expert guide and witness.He provides helpful historical background and deep exegesis; but he…
African Folktales in the New World
African Folktales in the New World
References Cited
African Folktales in the New World
Ifa Divination
The sacred texts of Ifa, repository of the accumulated wisdom of countless generations of Yoruba people, are an invaluable source not only for all students of African oral literature and Yoruba civilization, but also for future generations interested in the continuing vitality of Ifa divination and a Yoruba way of life and thought." -Henry DrewalThis landmark study of Ifa, the most important and elaborate system of divination of the Yoruba people…
Malinowski's Contributions to the Study of Folklore
(1983). Malinowski's Contributions to the Study of Folklore. Folklore: Vol. 94, No. 2, pp. 163-172
Sixteen Cowries
Sixteen Cowries
Preface Part One: Sixteen Cowries Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The Divination Verses Chapter 3 The System of Belief Part Two: The Verses of Sixteen Cowries Chapter 4 Eji Ogbe 8 cowries Chapter 5 Ofun 10 cowries Chapter 6 Osa 9 cowries Chapter 7 Okanran 1 cowrey Chapter 8 Eji Oko 2 cowries Chapter 9 Irosun 4 cowries Chapter 10 Ose 5 cowries Chapter 11 Ogunda 3 cowries Chapter 12 Obara 6 cowries Chapter 13 Odi 7 cowries Chapter 14 Owonrin 11 …
Sixteen Cowries. Yoruba Divination from Africa to the New World
Perhaps Too Much to Chew
The Ovo Empire c. 1600-c. 1836
African Dilemma Tales
Ethnology
African Dilemma Tales
Chapter 17. Changing African Art
Rejoinder to Jones and Preston
If a Divination
African Dilemma Tales
African Art in Cultural Perspective. An Introduction
African Art in Cultural Perspective
Describes the sculpture of many African regions in an attempt to show correlations between cultural factors and artistic design
African Art in Cultural Perspective
African Art in Motion
Obituary
Folklore, Verbal Art, and Culture
IN THE OFT-CITED TWENTY-ONE DEFINITIONS of folklore published under the editorship of Maria Leach,' I was intrepid enough to suggest that in anthropological usage folklore could be defined as art. I say intrepid, or perhaps the word should be rash, because I could hardly hope to make my meaning clear in the suggested 50 to 200 words. And yet, in rereading this statement I still find it difficult to see how I could have been thought to be speaking…
The Forms of Folklore
THIS ARTICLE1 is directed toward a definition of myth, legend, and folktale. These three very basic terms in folklore are loosely used and have sometimes been as hotly disputed as the nature of folklore itself. Definitions and classifications are neither particularly interesting nor necessarily fruitful, but if any field of study needs clarification of its basic terminology it is clearly folklore, which has so long been plagued by inconsistent an…
Four Functions of Folklore
N a paper given at the El Paso meetings last year I expressed the opinion that the most effective way to bridge the gap between the anthropological and the humanist points of view towards folklore is through a common concern with common problems, rather than relying as in the past on a common interest in a common body of subject matter. I also attempted to explain the anthropological approach to folklore, and extended the invitation for someone t…
The Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria
The Esusu
Sixteen Cowries
Preface Part One: Sixteen Cowries Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The Divination Verses Chapter 3 The System of Belief Part Two: The Verses of Sixteen Cowries Chapter 4 Eji Ogbe 8 cowries Chapter 5 Ofun 10 cowries Chapter 6 Osa 9 cowries Chapter 7 Okanran 1 cowrey Chapter 8 Eji Oko 2 cowries Chapter 9 Irosun 4 cowries Chapter 10 Ose 5 cowries Chapter 11 Ogunda 3 cowries Chapter 12 Obara 6 cowries Chapter 13 Odi 7 cowries Chapter 14 Owonrin 11 …
Social Status, Wealth and Individual Differences Among the Yoruba1
The Principle of Seniority in the Social Structure of the Yoruba
Urbanization Among the Yoruba
The Yoruba of Western Nigeria have large, dense, permanent settlements, based upon farming rather than upon industrialization, the pattern of which is traditional rather than an outgrowth of acculturation. They are undoubtedly the most urban of all African peoples, the percentage living in large communities being comparable to that in European nations. In terms of these communities, Wirth's final criterion of the city, social heterogeneity, may b…
Ifa Divination
Some Aspects of Yoruba Urbanism11
The Focus of Cuban Santeria
Yoruba Food
Opening ParagraphThe subsistence economy of the Yoruba of West Africa, like that of their neighbours, on the Guinea Coast, is based on sedentary hoe agriculture. Hunting, fishing, animal husbandry, and the gathering of wild foods are practised, but the basis of the Yoruba diet consists of starchy tubers, grains, and fruits grown on their farms, supplemented by vegetable oils, wild and cultivated fruits and vegetables, and meat and fish. The comme…
Ponapean Prestige Economy
Acculturation Among the Gullah Negroes
Verbal Art
The Sanctions of Ifa Divination
Folklore and Anthropology
African Art in Motion
Yoruba Cooking
Opening ParagraphAmong the Yoruba, cooking is done on a hearth (aro, adiro) consisting of three stones or lumps of clay on which a pot may be set over a wood fire. Five principal cooking techniques are employed:se, bǫ, to boil in water, or to steam in leaves;din, to fry in deep oil;yan, ta, to toast beside the fire, or in live embers or in a potsherd or dry pot over the fire;sun, to roast in the fire;bu, to bake in hot ashes
Two Studies of Ifa Divination
Opening ParagraphTo the Yoruba, divination is of great concern, as the means by which they discover and hope to influence the changes in their relationships with the gods and ancestors and other spirits in their complex cosmos, and so to gain their aid in their pursuit of health and good fortune. They employ a number of divinatory techniques. The one that yields the fullest information is the system of geomancy known as Ifa, for which there are t…
Yoruba Urbanism
The Relationship of Yoruba Folklore to Divining
Ifa Divination
The sacred texts of Ifa, repository of the accumulated wisdom of countless generations of Yoruba people, are an invaluable source not only for all students of African oral literature and Yoruba civilization, but also for future generations interested in the continuing vitality of Ifa divination and a Yoruba way of life and thought." -Henry DrewalThis landmark study of Ifa, the most important and elaborate system of divination of the Yoruba people…
Literary Style in Yoruba Riddles
West Africa and the Complexity of Primitive Cultures
North and South America
Land, Labour and Diet in Northern Rhodesia. Audrey I. Richards
Africa and Asia
The Sanctions of Ifa Divination
Acculturation Among the Gullah Negroes
IFA Divination
Chaga Childhood. A Description of Indigenous Education in an East African Tribe
Drums and Shadows
North America
The Principle of Seniority in the Social Structure of the Yoruba
The Relationship of Yoruba Folklore to Divining
Bundle of Troubles and Other Tarheel Tales by Workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of North Carolina
Les Bassins du Niger . Y. U rvoy
The Cow-Tail Switch and Other West African Stories
Tribes of the Liberian Hinterland
Clever Hands of the African Negro
West Africa and the Complexity of Primitive Cultures
Ponapean Prestige Economy
Book Notes
Literary Style in Yoruba Riddles
An African Aristocracy. Rank Among the Swazi. H ilda K uper
Ponape
During the first century of contact with the outside world, the history of Ponape has been marked by a series of violent outbreaks against Americans, Spaniards, and Germans. The causes and implications of these surprisingly effective uprisings, in which two governors of the island were killed, have become the direct concern of the American people. Ponape has been governed by the U. S. Navy since 1945, and was assigned to the United States by the …
The Focus of Cuban Santeria
Yoruba Cooking
Opening ParagraphAmong the Yoruba, cooking is done on a hearth (aro, adiro) consisting of three stones or lumps of clay on which a pot may be set over a wood fire. Five principal cooking techniques are employed:se, bǫ, to boil in water, or to steam in leaves;din, to fry in deep oil;yan, ta, to toast beside the fire, or in live embers or in a potsherd or dry pot over the fire;sun, to roast in the fire;bu, to bake in hot ashes
Yoruba Food
Opening ParagraphThe subsistence economy of the Yoruba of West Africa, like that of their neighbours, on the Guinea Coast, is based on sedentary hoe agriculture. Hunting, fishing, animal husbandry, and the gathering of wild foods are practised, but the basis of the Yoruba diet consists of starchy tubers, grains, and fruits grown on their farms, supplemented by vegetable oils, wild and cultivated fruits and vegetables, and meat and fish. The comme…
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