Book
The Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria
Holt, Rinehart and Winston • New York • Published In 1969 • Pages: xvii, 118
By: Bascom, William Russell.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book provides first hand account of Yoruba culture and soceity based on ethnographic fieldwork in Ife town in 1937-1938, and additional studies in several other Yoruba communites in 1950-1951 and 1965. The book discusses the richnesss and complexity of Yoruba culture which includes a unique tradition of urban life, and very elaborate economic, political and social structures. It also shows the influences of Yoruba religious believes and art forms on the cultures of peoples of African origin in the Caribbean, Cuba Brazil and USA.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Form and rules of government
- Chief executive
- Gender status
- Polygamy
- General character of religion
- Revelation and divination
- Congregations
- Art
- Territorial organization
- Mythology
- History
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2007
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1937-1938, 1950-1951, 1960 and 1965
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1850-1965
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Nigeria
- NotesAdditional notes
- by William Bascom
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 116-118)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 70092451
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yoruba (African people)