Book
The succession of Bemba chiefs: a guide for district officers
Printed by the Govt. Printer • [lusaka, Northern Rhodesia • Published In 1944 • Pages:
By: Brelsford, William Vernon.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The political stability of the Bemba society is dependent upon the smooth functioning of its rule of succession. The hierarchy of Bemba chieftainships is graded and the installation of a new chief often involves a series of political readjustments spread over several districts. This source describes, with the help of genealogical tables and historical examples, the intricate system of succession. Since chieftainships are monopolized by the royal line, data on kinship structure are found throughout the monograph. The author was a district officer at the time of writing.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Territorial hierarchy
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Bemba
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Government Official
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Robert Lee ; 1958
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1940
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Zambia
- NotesAdditional notes
- by W. B. Brelsford
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 53051136
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bemba (African people)