Frontiers Of 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 .

Foreword -- Frontiers of Folklore: An Introduction -- Who Are the Folk? -- The Context of Folklore: Implications and Prospects -- Performance of Oral Narrative -- Toward an Enactment-Centered Theory of Folklore -- Settlement Patterns on the Frontiers of Folklore