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Yoruba food
Africa • 21 • Published In 1951 • Pages: 41-53
By: Bascom, William Russell.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is the first of two sections of a study of diet among the Ife Yoruba; the second section, containing the recipes referred to in the first, is included in the Yoruba collection as 6: Bascom. The author is concerned with particular items in the diet, patterns of food consumption and the factors affecting such patterns, and the techniques of preparation of food. He emphasizes indigenous items and processes, although recognizing that European imports and methods are also used. Botanical names of food sources are given when known, and a bibliography is included. Bascom, an outstanding authority on the Yoruba, was at the University of California, Berkeley.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Diet
- Food preparation
- Ethnobotany
- Condiments
- Pharmaceuticals
- Recreational and non-therapeutic drugs
- Eating
- Standard of living
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Yoruba
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- George R. Bedell ; 1959
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1937-1938
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1937-1950
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Nigeria
- NotesAdditional notes
- William R. Bascom
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 53)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 29010790
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yoruba (African people)