1930s-1940s

1936

• "Straw Vote."
  Daily Northwestern. 1936, p. 4.

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1937

• (review) Life in a Haitian Valley, by M.J. Herskovits.
  Evanston New Index. 1937, p. 7.

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1938

• "Brass Portrait Heads from Ile-Ife, Nigeria."
  Man. 1938, 38(201):176.

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1939

• "The Legacy of an Unknown Nigerian 'Donatello.'"
  The Illustrated London News. 1939, pp. 592-594.
  
  

• "'Secret Societies,' Religious Cult-Groups and Kinship Units among the West African Yoruba."
  Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations, Vol. VII.
  Chicago and Evanston, IL: Northwestern University. 1939, pp. 43-47.
  
  

• (review) The Yoruba Husband-Wife Code, by E. Ward.
  American Anthropologist. 1939, 41(2):323-324.

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1941

• "The Sanctions of Ifa Divination."
  Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 1941, 71(1/2):43-54.
  
  

• "Acculturation among the Gullah Negroes."
  American Anthropologist. 1941, 43(1):43-50.
  
  

• "Anthropology and the Camera."
  The Complete Photographer. 1941, 4:225-232.
  
  

• "Art in Ancient Africa."
  The African Missionary. 19(4):74-77, 87.
  
  

• "Possible Application of Kite Photography to Archaeology and Ethnology."
  Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science. 1941, 34(2):62-63.
  
  

• (review) Bantu Heritage, by H.P. Junod.
  American Anthropologist. 1941, 43(1):106-107.
  
  

• (review) Land, Labour and Diet in Northern Rhodesia, by Audrey .I. Richards.
  American Journal of Sociology. March 1941, 46(5):751-752.

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1942

• "The Principle of Seniority in the Social Structure of the Yoruba."
  American Anthropologist. 1942, 44(1):37-46.
  
  

• "Ifa Divination: Comments on the Paper by J.D. Clarke, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, LXIX, 1939, 235-256."
  Man. March-April 1942, 42(21):41-43.
  
  

• "Anthropology and the Camera."
  In: The Complete Photographer, Vol. I. Edited by Willard D. Morgan.
  New York, NY: National Educational Alliance. 1942, pp. 225-232.
  
  

• (review) Drums and Shadows, by the Savannah Unit, Georgia Writers' Project. American Anthropologist. 1942, 44(1):120-121.

  • Reprinted in:
    • Journal of American Folklore. 1942, 55(218):262-263.
      
      

• (review) Chaga Childhood, by O.F. Raum.
  Journal of American Folklore. 1942, 55(217):191-192.

  • Reprinted in:
    • American Sociological Review. April 1942, 7(2):290-292. (Credited by mistake to M.J. Herskovits)

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1943

• with Ralph Bunche and the O.S.S. Staff.
  A Pocket Guide to West Africa.
  Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office for the War and Navy Departments. 1943, pp. 39.
  
  

• "The Relationship of Yoruba Folklore to Divining."
  Journal of American Folklore. 1943, 56(220):127-131.

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1944

• The Sociological Role of the Yoruba Cult-Group.
  American Anthropological Association, Memoir 63. 1944, p. 75.

  • Reprinted in:
• The Sociological Role of the Yoruba Cult-Group. American Anthropological Association, Memoir 63. New York, NY: Kraus Reprint Co, 1969.

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1945

• (review) Bundle of Troubles and Other Tarheel Tales, by Workers of the Writers' Program of the Works Projects Administration in the State of North Carolina.
  Journal of American Folklore. 1945, 58(229):266-267.

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1946

• "U.S.C.C. Survey on Micronesia."
  Central States Bulletin. 1946, 1(2):1, 3, 5.
  
  

• 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.

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1947

• (review) A Preliminary Sketch of the Lexicological Influence of the Nguni Languages on Southern Sotho, by G.L. Letele; Notes on Some Herero Genealogies, by I. Schapera; The Social Structure of the Southern Sotho Ward, by E.H. Ashton.
  American Anthropologist. 1947, 49(4):649-650.

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1948

• "West Africa and the Complexity of Primitive Cultures."
  American Anthropologist. 1948, 50(1):18-23.
  
  

• "Ponapean Prestige Economy."
  Southwestern Journal of Anthropology. 1948, 4(2):211-221.
  
  

• (review) The Cow-Tail Switch and Other West African Stories, by H. Courlander & G. Herzog.
  Western Folklore. 1948, 7(1):93-94.
  
  

• (review) Clever Hands of the African Negro, by W.D. Hambly.
  Journal of American Folklore. 1948, 61(239):92-93.
  
  

• (review) Tribes of the Liberian Hinterland, by G. Schwab.
  The Scientific Monthly. 1948, 67(2):138-139.
  
  

• (review) Les Bassins du Niger, by Y. Urvoy; Petit Atlas Ethno-Demographique du Soudan, by Y. Urvoy.
  American Anthropologist. 1948, 50(4):678-679.
  
  

• (review) Tribes of the Liberian Hinterland, by G. Schwab.
  Journal of American Folklore. 1948, 61(242):407-408.

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1949

• "West and Central Africa."
  In: Most of the World. Edited by Ralph Linton.
  New York, NY: Columbia University Press. 1949, pp. 331-404.
  
  

• "Literary Style in Yoruba Riddles."
  Journal of American Folklore. 1949, 62(243):1-16.
  
  

• with Richard A. Waterman
  "African and New World Negro Folklore."
  In: Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend, Vol. I.. Edited by Maria Leach
  New York, NY: Funk and Wagnalls. 1949, pp.18-24, 398.
  
  

• "African Peoples."
  In: Colliers Encyclopedia, Vol. I. Edited by Charles P. Berry.
  New York, NY: Crowell-Collier. 1949, pp. 168-179.
  
  

• "Subsistence Farming on Ponape."
  The New Zealand Geographer. 1949, 5(2):115-129.
  
  

• (review) Anthropological Bibliography of Negro Africa, by H.A. Wieschoff.
  American Anthropologist. 1949, 51(3):496.

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