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Know location of Nigeria and Tonga- Tiv in south eastern corner of Nigeria
Importance of Rivers
1. Potential source of food
2. Ways of transportation- good for trading
Environment
Homes
Mans house, womans house. For every 1 of a mans house, there are
many womens house because a man usually has more than 1 wife.
Each wife lives separately from man with their children
Kinship
Extended families
o Multigenerational
Patrilineal descent
o Measure relatives/ define their Kin only by their fathers side
Polygyny
Stratified
Witchcraft
Supporters that will stick up for you, defend you and put
that rumor to rest
Sickness
No modern medicine
Accusing every sickness as a witch putting a hex on them
was it so difficult for Bohannan to learn about Tiv witchcraft
They think shes a witch
Shes a stranger/British woman and they know that witchcraft is
something Europeans disapprove of
Its dangerous to talk about with strangers
It is a profound belief
Why
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Bohannons Fieldwork
Small Pox
Ethics: Did Bohannan act ethically when she left during the smallpox
epidemic?
When smallpox hits the Tiv community she is staying in, she leaves
She had been vaccinated
She has obligated as an anthropologist to assist these people
But
If she stays shes affecting change in the community
They may have unreasonable expectations
They may have thought she were a more powerful witch for not getting
sick (shes responsible for epidemic)
What are the two meanings of the book title Return to Laughter
For Bohannan
The station
Mr.Sackerton, district administrative officials and their families
Mission bookstore
Schools
Roads
Trucks
Tribal politics
Cultural Impacts
Extreme poverty/stratification
Globalization
Ethnic Conflict
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