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Some principles of exchange and investment among the Tiv
American anthropologist • 57 (1) • Published In 1955 • Pages: 60-70
By: Bohannan, Paul.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article deals with Tiv ideas of exchange as expressed in their language, some traditional modes of investment and exchange (based on a ranked hierarchy of categories of exchangeable commodities), and the impact of Western economy on various aspects of subsistence, exchange and investment. Both the Tiv categories of exchange and the synthetic categories of Bohannon are presented in such a way that the activities to which they refer and the ideas they embody cut across generally understood Western meanings of the terms economic, exchange, investment, and motivation of wealth. This ingenious device helps to convey to the reader some idea of the complex of feelings and attitudes with which these ideas are invested by the Tiv.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Exchange and transfers
- Accumulation of wealth
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tiv
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- 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
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1949-1953
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Nigeria
- NotesAdditional notes
- Paul Bohannan
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17015424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tiv (African people)