William R. Bascom (May 23, 1912 – September 11, 1981) was an award-winning American folklorist, anthropologist, and museum director. He was a specialist...

Yoruba Language. Lagos Church Missionary Society. 1913. pp. 90, 93. William Bascom. "Yoruba Cooking". Africa: Journal of the International African Institute:...

around the country. There are numerous other definitions. According to William Bascom major article on the topic there are "four functions to folklore": Folklore...

Omosade Awolalu, Yoruba Beliefs & Sacrificial Rites. ISBN 0-9638787-3-5 William Bascom, Sixteen Cowries. Lydia Cabrera, El Monte: Igbo-Nfinda, Ewe Orisha/Vititi...

Bascom is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname: Bernadette Bascom (born 1962), American R&B singer, actress...

ISBN 1-890157-05-8 William R. Bascom: Ifa Divination: Communication Between Gods and Men in West Africa ISBN 0-253-20638-3 William R. Bascom: Sixteen Cowries:...

Bascom Hill is the iconic main quadrangle that forms the historic core of the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. It is located on the opposite end...

Ocha) describes the two orisha as two aspects of a single being, while William Bascom noted that some connect the two through their mutual close relationship...

movies, in which Shatner played not the lead character but his boss, Walter Bascom. Shatner reprised the role in a television series that followed, as well...

career Fields Anthropology Institutions Northwestern University Doctoral advisor Franz Boas Doctoral students William Bascom, Erika Eichhorn Bourguignon...

boom triggered by the higher prices for products such as oil palm. William Bascom traced the origin to an earlier period when members of Yoruba age grade...

situation in the town. Bascom, William: The Yoruba of south-western Nigeria, New York 1969. The book mainly deals with Ife. Bascom, William "The Olojo festival...

Oba). Bascom 1976: 154 Bascom 1976: 153-54 Bascom 1976; Brown 2003; González-Wippler 1994 Bascom 1976: 154 Bascom 1976: 154 Bascom 1976: 151-52 Bascom 1976:...

Matson, author, 19th century William Bascom, folklorist, anthropologist John Howard Bryant, poet, older Brother of William Cullen Bryant, and friend of...

Nigeria (PDF) (booklet). Folkways Records. 1953. FE 4441... recorded by William Bascom Egberto Bermúdez (1994). "Syncretism, Identity, and Creativity in Afro-Colombian...

studies also came to the fore following World War II; as spokesman, William Bascom formulated the 4 functions of folklore. This approach takes a more top-down...

guidance of Walter Bascom, exterminating drug dealers ("TekLords") who peddle "Tek", a highly addictive neurological drug. Bascom sends the player through...

Bascom (/ˈbæskəm/ BAS-kəm) is a census-designated place in western Hopewell Township, Seneca County, Ohio. It has a post office with the ZIP code 44809...

Antropología de Colombia), Eduardo Arcila Farías (Colegio de México), William Bascom (University of California), Manuel Moreno Fraginals (Universidad de...

Ward Putnam, the anthropologists Alfred L. Kroeber, Robert Lowie, and William Bascom, paleoanthropologists Francis Clark Howell and Tim D. White, Egyptologists...

Confederate army during the American Civil War. Bascom Slemp had one brother who survived infancy, William Moses Slemp (1873–1912) and three sisters: Emma...

Earl Wesley Bascom FRSA (June 19, 1906 – August 28, 1995) was an American-Canadian painter, printmaker, sculptor, cowboy, rodeo performer, inventor, and...

to a depth of one kilometer (or 3,281 feet). In melting, it formed Lake Bascom in the upper Hoosic Valley. The remains of lake beaches are evident (to...

Elva Bascom was born in Greensburg, Ohio, Bascom was the daughter of that city's postmaster, Reynolds Bascom (1833-1901), and Lucy F. Andrews Bascom (1834-1920)...

the daughter of Colonel William Henshaw and Phebe Swan of Leicester, Massachusetts, and a schoolteacher from 1791 to 1801. Bascom married first, at about...

astronomical observations." This building, University Hall, now known as Bascom Hall, was finally completed in 1859. On October 10, 1916, a fire destroyed...

Kirk in Star Trek. William Shatner's musical career List of awards and nominations received by William Shatner * Works by William Shatner filmography...

Henry Bascom Steagall (May 19, 1873 – November 22, 1943) was a United States representative from Alabama. He was chairman of the Committee on Banking and...

Julia Bascom is an American autism rights activist. She is a former executive director of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) and replaced Ari Ne'eman...

Jack Bascom Brooks (December 18, 1922 – December 4, 2012) was an American Democratic Party politician from the state of Texas who served 42 years in the...