essay
The political organization and the historical traditions of the Barotse on the upper Zambesi
Württembergischer Veren für Handelsgeographie E.V. • (50 (1931/1932) • Published In 1932 • Pages: 71-115 , plates
By: Jensen, Adolf E., Schütze, Frieda.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source describes the governmental institutions of the Barotse kingdom and gives an account of the traditional history of the kingdom. From traditional history, and from certain cultural and racial features, the author considers it possible that the Barotse are cattle-breeding immigrants from East Africa who invaded their present territory and subjected the native population.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Traditional history
- Territorial organization
- Government institutions
- 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
- Sigrid Khera ; John Beierle
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1929-1930
- 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
- Adolf E. Jensen
- Translation of: Die staatlich Organisation und die historischen überlieferungen der Barotse am oberen Zambesi.
- The original German text is not included in this database
- Translated from the German for the Human Relations Area Files by Frieda Schütze
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Lozi (African people)