book chapter
The Tiv tribe
The Government Printer • Kaduna • Published In 1933 • Pages:
By: Downes, Roger Meaden.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document presents a well-organized account of the life of the Tiv people and provides a valuable supplement to the works of Abraham and East. Downes stresses the ancestral basis for most of the Tiv magico-religious beliefs and his section on law and justice is particularly good.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sorcery
- Cult of the dead
- Magic
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tiv
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1998
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Military Anthropologist
- Colonial Official
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Margaret Coughlin ; 1950-1956
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1929-1932
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1830-1932
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Benue State, Nigeria
- NotesAdditional notes
- R. M. Downes
- This document consists of excerpts
- The 19 geneological tables contained at the end of this (pages 83-101) and referred to in the text have been omitted. The appended map of Tiv clans will be found under 3: Abraham, page 3, since the one which appears in Downes is an exact duplicate of the one in the aforementioned text
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 46041665
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tiv (African people)