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The Lozi of Barostseland in north-western Rhodesia

Seven tribes of British Central AfricaManchesterPublished In 1959 • Pages: i-xx, 1-93 , plates

By: Gluckman, Max.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work focuses on the administrative system headed by the Lozi king and his councils, on the loyalty relationships between titled royalty and commoners, and on the general Lozi conception of nation as bound up with royalty in a kind of fictive familial relation. Gluckman gives extensive descriptions of the traditional kings's councils and the effect on these as well as on the 'sector' system which British rule had. There is no extensive information on family, kinship, socialization, or daily life of Lozi and affiliated tribes; Gluckman does not argue that the domestic nuclear family unit is unstable and that kinship-grouping is vague.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Tribe and nation
Chief executive
Executive household
cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Lozi
HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
1995
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
essay
Evaluation
Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
Ethnologist
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
Adolph Hoehling ; Sigrid Khera
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1940-1947
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
Max Gluckman
Bibliography: p. 89
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Lozi (African people)