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Culture summaryessay 1998 • Bohannan, Paul
Tiv • Africa > Western Africa
This is a culture summary of the Tiv....Tiv farm and settlementBook 1954 • Bohannan, Paul
Tiv • Africa > Western Africa
This monograph is a succinct description of the Tiv kinship structure, household organization and agricultural economy. Since the problems of land tenure impinge upon various aspects of Tiv social relationships, the author has commented extensively u...The migration and expansion of the Tivarticle 1954 • Bohannan, Paul
Tiv • Africa > Western Africa
The article is a description and analysis of the Tiv migratory movements. The two types of migration, centrifugal expansion and disjunction, are described in relation to their social and economic background, direction, rate of advance, and future tre...Circumcision among the Tivarticle 1954 • Bohannan, Paul
Tiv • Africa > Western Africa
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 se...Some principles of exchange and investment among the Tivarticle 1955 • Bohannan, Paul
Tiv • Africa > Western Africa
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 aspe...Concepts of time among the Tiv of Nigeriaarticle 1953 • Bohannan, Paul
Tiv • Africa > Western Africa
The way Tiv indicate time over short periods and long periods, including the words for these periods, is discussed by the author within the context of the fact that time is indicated but not measured in this culture. The relation to time concepts to ...Justice and judgment among the TivBook 1968 • Bohannan, Paul
Tiv • Africa > Western Africa
This comprehensive account of the Tiv judicial system is based on 73 cases recorded by Bohannan, his assistants, and court scribes, and interviews with judges. The Tiv judicial system is divided among magistrates' courts, district or native courts, a...Three source notebooks in Tiv ethnographyessay 1958 • Bohannan, Paul & Bohannan, Laura
Tiv • Africa > Western Africa
This source represents an experiment in putting anthropological field notes into the Files. These notes contain excerpts from official documents, selected and commented upon by the authors in addition to original field materials. The source is divide...A source book on Tiv religionBook 1969 • Bohannan, Paul & Bohannan, Laura
Tiv • Africa > Western Africa
This compendium presents reworked field notes on a number of subjects related to Tiv religion, particularly on witchcraft. It is divided into five volumes, paginated consecutively. The first volume contains data on general religious beliefs, ethno-co...Tiv economy 1968 • Bohannan, Paul & Bohannan, Laura
Tiv • Africa > Western Africa
...The Tiv of central NigeriaBook 1953 • Bohannan, Laura & Bohannan, Paul
Tiv • Africa > Western Africa
This well-organized survey brings together in one volume the existing knowledge of Tiv culture. It contains information on demography, language, history, social organization, political structure, economic activities, kinship and marriage ties, treatm...