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locations only impacted by their local folk culture. In Return to Laughter, Lauren Bohannon, or her nom de plume Elenore Smith Bowen, experiences the latter as she leaves the comfort of her first world culture to spend time with the Tiv tribe in Western Africa. The Tiv is a group that lives quite differently from what Bowen is used to. They live very communally and as team, everyone contributing to the collective betterment of the group, base their entire economy on agriculture, and use witchcraft

The cultures in which the author and that of the Tiv affects the meaning of Hamlet to the respective audiences. Hamlet is a famous play by shakespeare and we all understand it well in our culture, but in the culture of the Tiv they misunderstood many things. They would tell Laura Bohannan to talk to her elders when she went back home because they believe that elders know more and they would explain it to her better. Culture is the main factor that decides your opinion on things. If a word means something

In the story Shakespeare in the Bush, author Laura Bohannan has an argument with a friend about the interpretation of Shakespeare 's literature. Her friend stated that Shakespeare was "a very English poet" and that people of other cultures could certainly misunderstand his literal meanings. The author then argues that the plots and motivations of Shakespeare 's tragic plays will always be apparent because human nature is more or less universal through out the world. She does however take into account

Participant observation is a method of collecting information and data about a culture and is carried out by the researcher immersing themselves in the culture they observing. The researcher becomes known in the community, getting to know and understand the culture in a more intimate and detailed way than would be possible from any other approach. This is done by observing and participating in the community’s daily activities. The method is so effective because the researcher is able to directly

The Tiv people realize the importance of hunting so they utilize dogs to make their hunting more efficient. However the people south of the Tiv eat the dogs and mistreat them (Bohannan & Bohannan. 1969). The Tiv take great care of their hunting dogs, the hunting dogs are all male dogs. The female dogs are left at the compound and aren't treat as well as the male dogs. The male dogs are fed and trained well, so they can hunt animals without struggling. Young men are usually are the people to train

ABSTRACT In the last few decades Nigeria has experienced violent conflicts and antagonism rooted in religion, ethnicity, and economics. communal conflicts in Tiv land area of the Middle Belt region of Nigeria are not an exception. This paper (1) examines the causes of communal conflict in Tivland (2),challenges,as well as the(3) strategies of resolving and managing conflicts in Tivland and society in general. Introduction The African continent has been, and continues to be engulfed in

spent many fellowships in her career conducting research in East Africa, visited a tribe of people called the Tiv of West Africa, she read Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and believed the story had a very clear plot and that the understanding of the story could not be interpreted multiple ways. In Bohannan’s short story “Shakespeare in the Bush,” she

at the beginning of her fieldwork? Ans.1: Laura Bohannan, who was travelling to Nigeria to stay with Tiv people. Before visiting there she thought people have same mindset everywhere in the world. So those people will interpret the same meanings of hamlet story as she has. This later on proved wrong. 2. The elders asked her to tell a story. Which story did she tell? Ans.2: When the elders of Tiv ask her to tell a story of her culture, she decided to tell the story about hamlet because she thought

the Tiv culture, both general and special purpose currencies have existed for the trading of different types of goods. In Paul Bohannon’s article, “The Impact of Money on an African Subsistence Economy”, he argues that the introduction of a general purpose currency fundamentally changed the nature of Tiv culture because it altered their previously multi-centric economy and changed their traditional methodology of trading and valuation of categories of goods. Bohannon’s ethnography of the Tiv culture

interpretation of the bush tribe called Tiv of Northern Nigeria. Bowen was an American anthropologist who spent a year in Africa studying the people of the Tiv tribe, learning their language and engaging herself in their culture. In her studies, Bowen found that kinship was very important to the natives. She also found a new perspective on time and space throughout her research in Africa. Elenore Bowen used an etic point of view to observe and learn from the Tiv people. This story is told through cultural