Paul Bohannan

Paul Bohannan
Born	(1920-03-05)March 5, 1920 Lincoln, Nebraska
Died	July 13, 2007(2007-07-13) (aged 87) Visalia, California
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Arizona Queen's College, Oxford
Known for	Ethnography of the Tiv Spheres of exchange Divorce in the United States
Awards	Legion of Merit (1944) Herskovitz Prize (1969)
Scientific career
Fields	Cultural anthropology
Institutions	Oxford University Princeton University Northwestern University University of California, Santa Barbara University of Southern California Nigeria

Economic, applied, and development anthropology
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Basic concepts Barter Commodification Cultural capital Debt Embeddedness Finance Gift economy Inalienable possessions Limited good Reciprocity Redistribution Value Wealth Singularization (commodity pathway) Social capital Spheres of exchange
Provisioning systems Hunting-gathering Moral economy Nomadic pastoralism Pastoralism Peasant economics Shifting cultivation
Case studies Prestations Kula ring Moka exchange Potlatch Gifting Gifting remittances Organ gifting Shell money Provisioning Aché people (hunter-gatherers) Batek people Colonialism and development The Anti-Politics Machine Europe and the People Without History Political economy Jim Crow economy
Related articles Anthropology of development Critique of political economy Culture of poverty Formalist–substantivist debate The Great Transformation Heritage commodification Nutritional anthropology Original affluent society Peasant economics Political economy State formation
Major theorists Paul Bohannan Alexander Chayanov Stanley Diamond Raymond Firth Maurice Godelier David Graeber Jane I. Guyer Keith Hart Marvin Harris Bronisław Malinowski Marcel Mauss Sidney Mintz Karl Polanyi Marshall Sahlins Heinrich Schurtz Harold K. Schneider Eric Wolf
Social and cultural anthropology

Paul James Bohannan (March 5, 1920 – July 13, 2007) was an American anthropologist known for his research on the Tiv people of Nigeria, spheres of exchange and divorce in the United States.