| Included Work | Ajiṣafẹ, Ajayi Kọlawọlẹ, approximately 1875-1940 Laws and customs of the Yoruba people. |
| Included Work | Barnes, Sandra T. Culture summary, Yoruba. |
| Included Work | Bascom, William R., 1912-1981 Sanctions of Ifa divination. |
| Included Work | Bascom, William R., 1912-1981 Principle of seniority in the social structure of the Yoruba. |
| Included Work | Bascom, William R., 1912-1981 Yoruba food. |
| Included Work | Bascom, William R., 1912-1981 Yoruba cooking. |
| Included Work | Bascom, William R., 1912-1981 Sociological role of the Yoruba cult-group. |
| Included Work | Bascom, William R., 1912-1981 Social status, wealth and individual differences among the Yoruba. |
| Included Work | Bascom, William R., 1912-1981 Esusu. |
| Included Work | Bascom, William R., 1912-1981 Ifa Divination, comments on the paper by J. D. Clarke. |
| Included Work | Bascom, William R., 1912-1981 Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria. |
| Included Work | Clarke, John Digby. Ifa divination. |
| Included Work | Clarke, John Digby. Three Yoruba fertility ceremonies. |
| Included Work | Forde, Daryll, 1902-1973 Yoruba-speaking peoples of south-western Nigeria. |
| Included Work | Hailey, William Malcolm Hailey, Baron, 1872-1969. Native administration in the British African territories. Pt. III, West Africa: Nigeria, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, Gambia. |
| Included Work | Johnson, Samuel, -1901. Manners and customs. |
| Included Work | Lloyd, Peter Cutt. Yoruba lineage. |
| Included Work | Lloyd, Peter Cutt. Craft organization on Yoruba towns. |
| Included Work | Lloyd, Peter Cutt. Some problems of tenancy in Yoruba land tenure. |
| Included Work | Lloyd, Peter Cutt. Traditional political system of the Yoruba. |
| Included Work | Lloyd, Peter Cutt. Integration of the new economic classes into local government in western Nigeria. |
| Included Work | Lloyd, Peter Cutt. Some modern changes in the government of Yoruba towns. |
| Included Work | Lloyd, Peter Cutt. Yoruba of Nigeria. |
| Included Work | Matory, James Lorand Sex and the empire that is no more: gender and the politics of metaphor in Oyo Yoruba religion. |
| Included Work | Morton-Williams, P. Atinga cult among the south-western Yoruba. |
| Included Work | Parrinder, Geoffrey Yoruba-speaking peoples in Dahomey. |
| Included Work | Parrinder, Geoffrey Theistic beliefs of the Yoruba and Ewe peoples of West Africa. |
| Included Work | Perham, Margery, 1895-1982. Native administration in Nigeria. |
| Included Work | Prince, Raymond (Raymond H.) Indigenous Yoruba psychiatry. |
| Included Work | Schwab, William B. Kinship and lineage among the Yoruba. |
| Included Work | Schwab, William B. Terminology of kinship and marriage among the Yoruba. |
| Included Work | Ward-Price, Henry Lewis, 1888- Land tenure in the Yoruba provinces. |
| Other author/creator | Human Relations Area Files, inc. |
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| Contents |
Laws and customs of the Yoruba people / A. K. Ajisafe -- Culture summary, Yoruba / Sandra T. Barnes -- Sanctions of Ifa divination ; Principle of seniority in the social structure of the Yoruba ; Yoruba food ; Yoruba cooking ; Sociological role of the Yoruba cult-group ; Social status, wealth and individual differences among the Yoruba ; Esusu, a credit institution of the Yoruba ; Ifa Divination, comments on the paper by J. D. Clarke / William R. Bascom -- Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria / William Bascom -- Ifa divination ; Three Yoruba fertility ceremonies / J. D. Clarke -- Yoruba-speaking peoples of south-western Nigeria / Daryll Forde -- Native administration in the British African territories, West Africa: Nigeria, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, Gambia / Lord Hailey -- Manners and customs / Samuel Johnson -- Yoruba lineage ; Craft organization on Yoruba towns ; Some problems of tenancy in Yoruba land tenure ; Traditional political system of the Yoruba ; Some modern changes in the government of Yoruba towns ; Yoruba of Nigeria / Peter C. Lloyd -- Integration of the new economic classes into local government in western Nigeria / P. C. Lloyd -- Sex and the empire that is no more / J. Lorand Matory -- Atinga cult among the south-western Yoruba, a sociological analysis of a witch-finding movement / P. Morton-Williams -- Yoruba-speaking peoples in Dahomey ; Theistic beliefs of the Yoruba and Ewe peoples of West Africa / Geoffrey Parrinder -- Native administration in Nigeria / Margery Perham -- Indigenous Yoruba psychiatry / Raymond Prince -- Kinship and lineage among the Yoruba ; Terminology of kinship and marriage among the Yoruba / William B. Schwab -- Land tenure in the Yoruba provinces / H. L. Ward-Price. |
| Abstract |
This collection of 31 documents about the Yoruba covers the time period from 1880 to the 1960s. The book by anthropologist William R. Bascom (1969) provides comprehensive first-hand ethnographic accounts of Yoruba culture as observed in 1937-1938, 1950-1951 and 1965. Articles by Bascom discuss aspects of Yoruba culture and society including social structure, cult groups and divination, functions of local credit institutions, and food and cooking. Other anthropological studies include both broad ethnographic surveys, and relatively short manuscripts examining specific themes including political structure, lineage groups, kinship and marriage, class and economic differentiation, craft organization, land tenure and tenancy, urbanization and change, and divination, cult groups, witchcraft and dynamics of gender and religion. Also included in the collection are reports by a senior colonial government official and two missionaries. The collection focuses largely on Yoruba communities in Nigeria, except Parrinder (1947) who provides a brief ethnographic survey of the Yoruba in Benin (formerly Dahomey). Readers will also find useful information in Matory and Bascom (1969) relating to the influences of Yoruba religion and art forms on the cultures of peoples of African origin in the Caribbean, Cuba, Brazil, and the United States. |
| General note | Title from Web page (viewed Apr. 7, 2010). |
| General note | This portion of eHRAF world cultures was last updated in 2009 and is a revision and update of the microfiche file. |