Book
Tiv economy
Northwestern University Press • (20) • Published In 1968 • Pages: viii, 265
By: Bohannan, Paul, Bohannan, Laura.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The Tiv economy is divided into three separate and ranked spheres of exchange: those of subsistence, prestige and kinship. The subsistence economy is based on a three year cropping cycle of yams, millet and beniseed, a cash crop which provides money to pay taxes. All men have rights to land through their membership in a lineage, but the actual allocation of acreage is based on the size of one's household. Women do most of the agricultural work and sell surplus crops and prepared foods in local markets. Men are involved in more long distant trade between markets, both within and outside of Tivland. Ibo and Hausa traders also tap into Tiv markets, selling to Tiv foreign goods and buying their crops for urban and foreign markets. Tiv also exchange prestige items such as cattle, horses, and brass rods, and in former times, slaves. The ultimate objective of all these transactions is to secure the necessary wealth in both goods and prestige to obtain wives, who along with their children are the final measure of Tiv wealth.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Tillage
- Vegetable production
- Commercial facilities
- Real property
- Exchange and transfers
- Retail marketing
- Division of labor by gender
- Household
- Lineages
- Inter-ethnic relations
- 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
- 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
- Ian Skoggard ; 1996
- 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
- 1909-1953
- 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 and Laura Bohannan
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-257) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 66017013
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tiv (African people)