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Anthropologist, born in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA in 1920. He taught at Northwestern University (1959–75) and ended his career at the University of Southern California (1982–7). He published studies of African legal and economic anthropology, Africa and Africans (with Philip Curtin, 1964, revised 1971), Tiv Economy (1968, with L Bohannan), and Western middle-class concepts of marriage, family, and divorce Divorce and After (1970).
Paul James Bohannan, known as the world's leading expert on the Tiv of Nigeria, died on July 13, 2007 at the age of 87 at his home in Visalia, California.
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