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Circumcision among the Tiv
Man • 54 • Published In 1954 • Pages: 2-6
By: Bohannan, Paul.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article deals with the function of circumcision in Tiv culture. The relation of the practice to age grades, ritualism, and the attainment of adult status is sketched in a brief and lucid manner. A detailed description of one occasion on which several young males were circumcised is given, and four illustrations by the author augment the text.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Body alterations
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Leslie L. Clark ; 1958
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1951
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- September 18, 1951
- 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
- Paul Bohannan
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sf80000548
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tiv (African people)