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Scholarly Monographs

1946

• Ponape: A Pacific Economy in Transition.
  U.S. Commercial Company, Economic Survey of Micronesia, Vol. 8.
  Mimeographed by the Pacific Science Board, Honolulu. 1946, pp. vii, 287.
  Reprinted with minor revisions in 1965 as Ponape: A Pacific Economy in Transition.
  Anthropological Records, Vol. 22. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1965.

1959

• Co-editor with M.J. Herskovits.
  Continuity and Change in African Cultures.
  Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1959.
  Reprinted in 1962, 1970 by University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL; University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada.

1969

• Ifa Divination: Communication Between Gods and Men in West Africa.
  Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1969.

1972

• Shango in the New World.
  Occasional Publications of the African and Afro-American Research Institute, no. 4.
  Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1972.

  • Reprinted in:
    • Actas y Memorias del XXXIX Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, Lima, 2-9 de Agosto, 1970. 1972, 6:37-46.

1973

• African Art in Cultural Perspective: An Introduction.
  New York: W.W. Norton, 1973.

1975

• Editor.
  African Dilemma Tales.
  Presented at the 9th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences.
  The Hague: Mouton Publishers, 1975.
  Distributed by Aldine, Chicago, IL.

1977

• Editor.
  Frontiers of Folklore.
  AAAS Selected Symposium, vol 5.
  Published for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC.
  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1977.

1980

• Sixteen Cowries: Yoruba Divination from Africa to the New World.
  Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1980.