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The judicial process among the Barotse of Northern Rhodesia

Manchester University Press, published on behalf of the Institute for Social Research, University of ZambiaManchesterPublished In 1967 • Pages:

By: Gluckman, Max.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Gluckman presents (in transcript form with brief explanations) a series of cases that came before the Lialui court (kuta) while he sat there in the 1940's. On the basis of these cases and his general knowledge of Lozi society and polity, Gluckman discusses the abstract concepts of law and justice, of the duty of judges, and of the ethics of the 'reasonable man' held by Lozi. The author generates hypotheses for comparing these judicial approaches to those in other societies.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Law
Trial procedure
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
Book
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.
4: Excellent Secondary 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; 1965
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
1940s
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 ; foreword by A. L. Goodart
Bibliography: p. 448.|Includes index
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Law, Lozi/Lozi (African people)