book chapter
The Tiv people
The Government Printer • Lagos • Published In 1933 • Pages:
By: Abraham, Roy Clive.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is one of the best monographs on the Tiv. The date of fieldwork is not specified in the book, but it seems likely that it was done in the period immediately preceding the publication of the book.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Comparative evidence
- Literary texts
- Rule of descent
- Phratries
- Sorcery
- Sacred objects and places
- 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.
- Linguist
- 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
- MPK ; 1950-1956
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1925-1944
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 900-1930
- 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
- Roy Clive Abraham
- This document consists of excerpts
- The entire book has been excerpted for the file, with the exception of the photographic plates. Where omissions from the text have been made, they are in almost every instance native words
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tiv (African people)