Bascom, William R.

Bascom, William R.

▪ American anthropologist
in full  William Russell Bascom  
born May 23, 1912, Princeton, Ill., U.S.
died Sept. 11, 1981, San Francisco, Calif.

      American anthropologist who was one of the first to do extensive fieldwork in West Africa. He served as chairman (1956–57) of the anthropology department and acting director of African studies (1953, 1957) at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.

      After completing a period of government service in West Africa during and immediately following World War II (1943–46), Bascom became a Fulbright research scholar (1950–51). In 1957 he was made professor and director of the Robert H. Lowie Museum at the University of California, Berkeley. A specialist in African folklore, Bascom, in his treatise on Ifa Divination: Communication Between Gods and Men in West Africa (1969), clarified the Yoruba divination system, which is orally transmitted by Ifa priests to apprentices. Other writings include African Arts (1967) and The Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria (1969).

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