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Volume 40 - October 1970

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  • Information on Current Research in African Studies

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    23 January 2012, p. 71
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  • Tiv Proverbs as a Means of Social Control1

  • Harold M. Bergsma
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    23 January 2012, pp. 151-163

  • Of all the verbal art forms employed by the Tiv, such as singing, story-telling, and proverbs, the last are the most consistently used in everyday situations. Elders today often converse by means of proverbs to prevent young listeners from understanding what they are talking about, for many youngsters have not learned the use of proverbs because they have been to school or away from home for extended periods and have thus lost touch with ‘archaic’ usages.

    Proverbs are employed in a variety of situations: to control activities without the use of force, as devices for shaming, for getting out of difficult situations without losing face, as a means of praise, in prophetic utterances, and as general explanations for that sphere of Tiv environment which is beyond comprehension, especially illness or ‘acts of God’.

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  • Research Information Liaison Unit

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    23 January 2012, p. 374
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  • Centre d'Études et de Documentation Africaines (CEDAF), Brussels

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  • Dr. J. H. Oldham

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  • Information on Current Research in African Studies

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  • Meeting of the Executive Council of the Institute: Paris, 6–7 April 1970

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  • Grupo de Estudios Afro-Hispánicos (GEAH), B.P. 2007, Kisangani

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  • Grants for African Studies (U.S.A.)

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  • Dr. R. E. Bradbury

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  • French and Francophone Institutions engaged in African Studies

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  • Traditional Attitudes, Beliefs, and Practices Relevant to Family Planning (in East Africa)

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  • Les Sciences Humaines au Centre de Lomé (Togo) de l'Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer (ORSTOM)

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  • Seminar on the Development of African Trade and Markets in West Africa

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    23 January 2012, pp. 164-166
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  • Joint Annual Meeting and Conference of the African Studies Association (U.S.A.) and the Committee on African Studies in Canada, 1969

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  • Création d'une section de linguistique à l'Institut National Tchadien pour les Sciences Humaines de Fort-Lamy (Tchad)

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  • Grants for African Studies (U.S.A.)

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  • Budapest Conference on Problems of Economic Development in Africa

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  • Child Development Research Unit, University College, Nairobi

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