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- ISBN 9780367170769
- Weight: 520g
- Dimensions: 146 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 19 Oct 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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This book explores some of the avenues of research that are exciting young folklorists. William Bascom reviews the development of folklore theories and suggests three frontiers of folklore that remain to be explored. The book follows anthropologists like Malinowski in examining folklore.
William R. Bascom is professor of anthropology and director of the Lowie Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his publications are African Dilemma Tales ( Mouton, 1975) and Ifa Divination: Communication Between Gods and Men in West Africa ( Indiana University Press, 1969), which was awarded The Giuseppe Pitre International Folklore Prize .
