Reviews and Critiques

Informal in-Group Justice

Inter-Community Relations

Instigation of War

Bibliographies in Sources

Regulation of Marriage

Mode of Marriage

Termination of Marriage

5311

Visual Arts

Organization and Analysis of Results

External Migration

Traditional History

History

Acculturation and Culture Contact

External Relations

Missions

Inheritance

Population

Eschatology

Magical and Mental Therapy

Medical Therapy

Eating

Household

Polygamy

Glossary

Community Structure

Social Control

Identification

Location

Topography and Geology

Flora

Magicians and Diviners

Sorcery

Spirits and Gods

Collecting

Hunting and Trapping

Domesticated Animals

Tillage

Arboriculture

Diet

Production and Supply

Kinship Terminology

Organized Ceremonial

Processing of Basic Materials

Smiths and Their Crafts

Division of Labor by Gender

Occupational Specialization

Cultural Participation

Real Property

Rules of Descent

Lineages

Ethnogeography

Commercial Facilities

Internal Trade

External Trade

Ordering of Time

Ethos

Linguistic Identification

Material Not Relevant

Composition of Population

Historical Reconstruction

Dwellings

Outbuildings

Building Interiors and Arrangement

Settlement Patterns

CULTURE SUMMARY: TIV

ETHNONYMS

ORIENTATION

HISTORY AND CULTURAL RELATIONS

SETTLEMENTS

ECONOMY

KINSHIP

MARRIAGE AND FAMILY

SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION

RELIGION AND EXPRESSIVE CULTURE

SYNOPSIS

INDEXING NOTES

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

RELIGIOUS PRACTITIONERS

CEREMONIES

ARTS

MEDICINE

DEATH AND AFTERLIFE

IDENTIFICATION AND LOCATION

DEMOGRAPHY

LINGUISTIC AFFILIATION

SUBSISTENCE

INDUSTRIAL ARTS

TRADE

DIVISION OF LABOR

LAND TENURE

KIN GROUPS AND DESCENT

KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY

MARRIAGE

DOMESTIC UNIT

INHERITANCE

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

POLITICAL ORGANIZATION

SOCIAL CONTROL

CONFLICT

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The Tiv live in Nigeria on both sides of the Benue River, 220 kilometers from its confluence with the Niger. The Tiv language is a subgroup of the Niger-Congo language family. The Tiv are subsistence farmers growing yams, cassava, and sweet potatoes. All Tiv reckon patrilineal descent from their earliest ancestor and see themselves as a single patrilineage. Their large-scale patrilineal genealogy is also the basis of their land-tenure system in which every Tiv male has a right to a farm. Tiv maintain a calendar built on five-day market cycles in which goods move from smaller markets to large central markets, and then for export.

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