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According to Wikipedia, Paul James Bohannan was an American anthropologist known for his research on the Tiv people of Nigeria, spheres of exchange and divorce in the United States. Early life and education Bohannan was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, to Hillory Bohannan and Hazel Truex Bohannan. During the Dust Bowl his family moved to Benson, Arizona. World War II interrupted his college education, and he served in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps from 1941 to 1945 reaching the rank of captain. In 1947 he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with his bachelor's degree in German from the University of Arizona. He attended Queen's College, Oxford, thereafter as a Rhodes scholar, receiving a Bachelor of Science in 1949 and his doctor of philosophy degree in 1951, both in anthropology.

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Proxemics [and Comments and Replies] (1968) (478)
Some Principles of Exchange and Investment among the Tiv (1955) (354)
The Impact of Money on an African Subsistence Economy (1959) (315)
Markets in Africa (1963) (229)
Africa and Africans (1964) (126)
African Homicide and Suicide (1960) (109)
Divorce and after (1971) (106)
The Tiv of Central Nigeria (1953) (104)
Law And Warfare Studies in the Anthropology of Conflict (1967) (102)
The Differing Realms of the Law (2009) (79)
How Culture Works (1994) (67)
Extra‐Processual Events in Tiv Political Institutions (1958) (67)
Concepts of Time among the Tiv of Nigeria (1953) (63)
Rethinking Culture: A Project for Current Anthropologists [and Comments and Reply] (1973) (54)
High points in anthropology (1973) (51)
The Migration and Expansion of the Tiv (1954) (47)
The Expansive Moment: Anthropology in Britain and Africa 1918-1970. (1996) (44)
Tiv farm and settlement (1954) (36)
Beauty and Scarification Amongst the Tiv (1956) (31)
Colonial Research Studies:@@@No. 15. Tiv Farm and Settlement@@@No. 16. The Economy of Hausa Communities of Zaria (1956) (23)
Marriage, family, and residence (1968) (22)
Kinship and Social Organisation (21)
Violent death in the city (1979) (19)
Asking and Listening: Ethnography as Personal Adaptation (1998) (18)
Markets in Africa : eight subsistence economies in transition : a new selection (1965) (17)
Three Source Notebooks In Tiv Ethnography (1958) (15)
You Can't Do Nothing (1980) (15)
We, the Alien: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (1991) (11)
Karl Polanyi 1886-1964 (1965) (10)
Circumcision Among The Tiv (1954) (9)
An Alternate Residence Classification (1957) (9)
Three Studies in African Law (1961) (8)
Essays in economic anthropology : dedicated to the memory of Karl Polanyi (1965) (7)
Culture As Given, Culture as Choice (1998) (7)
AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST: The First Eighty Years (1970) (7)
A Source Book On Tiv Religion (1969) (7)
An Experimental Ninth‐Grade Anthropology Course (1969) (6)
Institutions of Divorce, Family, and the Law (1967) (6)
EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBERS (1979) (5)
Some models for planning the future (1984) (4)
The ‘Descent’ of the Tiv from Ibenda Hill (1954) (4)
An Open Letter from the President: ¿ E PLURIBUS UNUM? (1978) (4)
All the happy families: Exploring the varieties of family life (1985) (4)
The promise of democracy (1978) (4)
On Anthropologists' Use of Language (1958) (4)
Heritability of intelligence. (1973) (4)
African outline : a general introduction (1966) (3)
Anthropological Theories (1959) (3)
Themes of Work and Love in Adulthood. NEIL J. SMELSER and ERIK H. ERIKSON, eds (1981) (3)
GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Anthropology. Eric R. Wolf (1965) (3)
A Tiv Political and Religious Idea (1955) (2)
ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: Tribal Cohension in a Money Economy: A Study of the Mambwe People of Northern Rhodesia. William Watson (1960) (2)
A Preliminary Review of the Intercultural Dimension in International/Intercultural Education, Grades K-14. Final Report. Publication No. 156. (1973) (2)
GENERAL: The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non‐Communist Manifesto. W. W. Rostow (1961) (2)
On the Use of Native Language Categories in Ethnology (1956) (2)
Discovering The Alien: A Workbook In Cultural Anthropology (1992) (1)
A source notebook in the Tiv life cycle (1966) (1)
A source notebook in Tiv subsistence, technology, and economics (1966) (1)
Some bases of aggression and their relationship to law (1982) (1)
Love, sex, and being human (1969) (1)
Cosmos, soma, psyche, and disease (1969) (1)
Premises in Social Science. (1985) (1)
A source notebook in Tiv history and political organization (1966) (1)
ETHNOLOGY: Search for Security: An Ethno‐Psychiatric Study of Rural Ghana. M. J. Field (1961) (1)
SECTION OF ANTHROPOLOGY: TIV MARKETS* (1957) (1)
GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: The Ideas in Barotse Jurisprudence. Max Gluckman (1967) (0)
Part III The search for the missing pieces: In social science (1982) (0)
Santa Barbara Fire (1977) (0)
Polymaths and the reinvention of culture (1981) (0)
Plough, Sword and Book: The Structure of Human History; Culture Through Time: Anthropological Approaches (1993) (0)
Section Meetings, Friday Morning, October 12: Panel One (1962) (0)
Culture Summary: Tiv (1998) (0)
Part I The foundations in law and morality (1982) (0)
Attitudes: Yesterday and Today (1966) (0)
"Justice and Judgment among the Tiv", Paul Bohannan, University Press - International African Institute, Oxford 1957 : [recenzja] / Zofia Szyfelbejn. (1962) (0)
INTERIM REPORT OF THE AD HOC COMMITTEE TO IMPLEMENT THE 1972 RESOLUTION ON FAIR PRACTICES IN EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN IN ANTHROPOLOGY (1979) (0)
Gunther Stent, Editor, Morality as a Biological Phenomenon: The Presuppositions of Sociobiological Research, University of California Press, London (1980), p. 295. (1983) (0)
An Open Letter from President Bohannan GETTING IT ALL TOGETHER (1979) (0)
Education and the Curse of Culture. (1969) (0)
GENERAL: Shona Ritual with Special Reference to the Chaminuka Cult. Michael Gelfand (1960) (0)
Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views. RHODA METRAUX (1980) (0)
MONKEYS. African Species (1973) (0)
An “ism” Problem (1990) (0)
The great Akombo and Akombo ritual (1969) (0)
Reply to Monga (1967) (0)
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Beyond the Family: The Social Organization of Human Reproduction. A. F. Robertson. (1993) (0)
Fest me no schriften. (1969) (0)
Culture, Aggression, and Where We Are Going. (1973) (0)
Love, Sex and Being Human@@@Sex before Marriage (1970) (0)
Cross-Examinations: Essays in Memory of Max Gluckman. P. H. GULLIVER, ed (1981) (0)
GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Tropical Africa. George H. T. Kimble (1961) (0)
The Curse of Culture. SSEC Publication No. 133. (1971) (0)
Cover: Law, Biology and Culture (1982) (0)
Pamela J. Asquith (1999) (0)
Education and Research (1960) (0)
BOOK REVIEW By WJB TIV FARM AND SETTLEMENT (2016) (0)
Anthropology. SSEC Publication No. 106. (1966) (0)
The extensive collection of letters, both hand-written and typed, document Karl Polanyi=s professional activities, as well as private life. Karl Polanyi=s correspondence contains incoming and outgoing letters, arranged in chronological order. (1989) (0)
A GREETING FROM PRESIDENT‐ELECT BOHANNAN (1978) (0)
Eva Verbitsky Hunt, 1934-1980 (1981) (0)
The Konkomba of Northern Ghana. David Tait (1963) (0)
SOCIAL SCIENCE EDUCATION CONSORTIUM. PUBLICATION 106, ANTHROPOLOGY. (1966) (0)
Thank you, Nathalie Woodbury (1991) (0)
Ex Familia: Grandparents, Parents, and Children Adjust to Divorce. COLLEEN LEAHY JOHNSON (1992) (0)
The meaning of Akombo and the life cycle (1969) (0)
FINAL REPORT OF THE AD HOC COMMITTEE TO IMPLEMENT THE 1972 RESOLUTION ON FAIR PRACTICES IN EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN (1979) (0)
Letters to the Editor. (1960) (0)
Part II The search for the missing pieces: In biology (1982) (0)
AFR volume 24 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (1954) (0)
It's been a good field trip (1997) (0)
Attitudes: Yesterday and Today: An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species . Edited by Winthrop D. Jordan. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1965. 345 pp., $5.95. (1966) (0)
Valuable Pioneering Study in African Behavior and Criminology (1960) (0)
Les Sculptures de l'Afrique Noire . By Denise Paulme. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1956. Pp. 130, 32 pl. 1.200 frs. (1956) (0)
Robert Plant Armstrong: A Memorial (2009) (0)
The lesser Akombo (1969) (0)
OTHER: Class and Nationality: English and American Studies. Joel B. Montague, Jr (1965) (0)
The New Form of the General Monograph (1969) (0)
General Literature and Related Topics (1969) (0)
Love, sex, and being human : a book about the human condition for young people (1969) (0)
Teaching and Research. (1960) (0)
The foundations in law and morality (1982) (0)
ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: The Staple Food Economies of Western Tropical Africa. BRUCE F. JOHNSTON (1959) (0)
On Anthropologists' Use of Linguistics: Rejoinder (1958) (0)
Symposium on Sociological Theory . Llewellyn Gross, Ed. Row, Peterson, Evanston, Ill., 1959. ix + 642 pp. $7.25. (1959) (0)
Biennial Review of Anthropology, 1967. Bernard J. Siegel and Alan R. Beals, Eds. Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1967. x + 368 pp. $9 (1968) (0)
Government and Politics Without the State (1970) (0)
The Sociological Imagination . C. Wright Mills. Oxford University Press, New York, 1959. 234 pp. $6. (1959) (0)

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