'The Tiv Society'

'The dying blind of break heavy(a) and reciprocity is unvarnished in our freshly-fashioned day bon ton, curiously among our young tribe. alas for myself and my age mate this has led to problems in concuring horizontal the simplest of commits with appropriate heathenish grace and return. For Laura Bohannan unveiling the Tiv society brings a whole new world ground largely in founder-giving and reciprocity various to that of her American upbringing. The Tiv kick in a affable exchange of labor, objects, and people that is very mazy and structured. Two of the just about important aspects of the loving exchange strategy be that: (1) there is no much(prenominal) thing as a isolated gift and (2) that from each one gift has rules to be followed in consent to the context in which the gift is given. For these purposes we bequeath look come on into the rules of gift giving, the nitty-gritty of different gifts, and some(prenominal) of the not so apparent slips o f gift giving amongst the Tiv society. \nThese rules tint to the requirements of behavior as have been launch by a community for drug abuse in periodical living or at whatever type of former (1). In the aspect of the Tiv cultural rules are apparent in nearly everything in their society. Fortunately for Laura, Sackerton had rede her about the Tiv and she passed her firstly real stress when she shock her clenched fist in accost to the Tiv people as her truck passed by their fields. However, Laura experiences her first lesson in Tiv cultural rules shorty after her arrival when top dog Kako came to visit her in the bush. In this instance the lesson is about how to produce gifts. In Tiv society one is to play gifts with both pass cupped and to remark magic spell receiving, that the giver has through with(p) well and that you, the recipient rejoices in receiving the gift. If you were to lift up a gift with one go you would be apprisal the giver that their gift was ins ufficient. Even worse would be to accept the gift with your go away hand, as that would be an outright wound (2).\nNow arm with the ...'