book chapter
A Case study of ideas concerning disease among the Tiv
Africa • 32 (2) • Published In 1962 • Pages: 123-131
By: Price-Williams, D. R..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This brief article deals with the manifestations in a specific locale of Tiv conceptions of health, disease, and sorcery, and of related therapeutic practices and practitioners. At the crux of these matters is a concept of fundamental importance in Tiv culture, that of AKOMBO. This is a complex notion incorporating a belief in magical forces as one of its essential facets. For purposes of clarification, it may be useful if in conjunction with this article one also reads a more general analysis of the AKOMBO concept such as that contained in 19: Bohannan and Bohannan, pp. 85-90, this file.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theory of disease
- Magical and mental therapy
- 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 TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Psychologist
- 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
- Robert O. Lagacé ; 1962
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1959
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1959
- 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
- D. R. Price Williams
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 29010790
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tiv (African people)