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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Brelsford, William Vernon
Title:
The succession of Bemba chiefs: a guide for district
officers
Published By: Original publisher
[Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia: Printed by the Govt. Printer.
1944]. iv, 43 p. ill.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
by W. B. Brelsford
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 1997. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Bemba (FQ05)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Territorial hierarchy (631);
Abstract: Brief 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.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
6
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
fq05-006
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Monograph
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
ca. 1940
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is 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
Government Official-5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
Robert Lee ; 1958
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
not specified
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Zambia
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Bemba (African people)
