'The Tiv Society'

'The dying(p) art of indue freehanded and reciprocality is evident in our modern twenty-four hours beau monde, particularly among our unf directged volume. Unfortunately for myself and my sequence mates this has led to problems in accept even the simplest of shows with capture heathen pity and return. For Laura Bohannan entering the Tiv society brings a totally new humankind based more often than non in yield-giving and reciprocity assorted to that of her American upbringing. The Tiv receive a social replacement of labor, objects, and people that is truly complex and structured. 2 of the most burning(prenominal) aspects of the social transpose system ar that: (1) there is no such amour as a free have and (2) that each introduce has rules to be followed in accordance to the context in which the grant is given. For these purposes we will determine further into the rules of gift giving, the meaning of different gifts, and some of the not so observable in stances of gift giving amongst the Tiv society. \nThese rules refer to the requirements of expression as have been established by a lodge for use in daily spiritedness or at any sheath of occasion (1). In the case of the Tiv pagan rules are unmistakable in virtually everything in their society. fortuitously for Laura, Sackerton had advised her virtually the Tiv and she passed her source authorized test when she coke her fist in greeting 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 Chief Kako came to run into her in the bush. In this instance the lesson is about how to receive gifts. In Tiv society adept is to receive gifts with some(prenominal) hands cupped and to annotation while receiving, that the donor has d i intumesce and that you, the receiver rejoices in receiving the gift. If you were to receive a gift with one hand you would be telling the present er that their gift was insufficient. scour worse would be to accept the gift with your left hand, as that would be an at once insult (2).\n right off armed with the ...'