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Yoruba cooking

Africa21Published In 1951 • Pages: 125-137

By: Bascom, William Russell.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is the second of two sections of a study of diet among the Ife Yoruba; the first section, concerned primarily with identification of items of diet and patterns of food consumption, has been included in the Yoruba file as 5: Bascom. This section is concerned entirely with processing methods, and presents Yoruba names of various dishes, descriptions of the same, and detailed recipes for their preparation. A brief bibliography is appended.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Food preparation
Eating
Cultural participation
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
1937-1951
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. 137)
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
29010790
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Yoruba (African people)