Bemba : FQ05.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New Haven, Conn. : Human Relations Area Files, 1996- |
| Supplemental Content | https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://ehrafWorldCultures.yale.edu/collection?owc=FQ05 |
| Subjects |
| Included Work | Barnes, Ḥ. Survival after death among the Ba-Bemba of north-eastern Rhodesia. |
| Included Work | Brelsford, William Vernon. Succession of Bemba chiefs. |
| Included Work | Hinfelaar, Hugo F. Bemba-speaking women of Zambia in a century of religious change (1892-1992) |
| Included Work | Maxwell, Kevin B. (Kevin Burns), 1941- Bemba myth and ritual. |
| Included Work | Richards, Audrey I. (Audrey Isabel), 1899-1984. Modern movement of witch-finders. |
| Included Work | Richards, Audrey I. (Audrey Isabel), 1899-1984. Chisungu. |
| Included Work | Richards, Audrey I. (Audrey Isabel), 1899-1984. Land, labour and diet in northern Rhodesia. |
| Included Work | Richards, Audrey I. (Audrey Isabel), 1899-1984. Reciprocal clan relationships among the Bemba of N.E. Rhodesia. |
| Included Work | Richards, Audrey I. (Audrey Isabel), 1899-1984. Political system of the Bemba tribe. |
| Other author/creator | Human Relations Area Files, inc. |
| Series | eHRAF world cultures. Africa EHRAF world cultures. Africa. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | Survival after death among the Ba-Bemba of North-Eastern Rhodesia / H. Barnes -- The succession of Bemba chiefs / William Vernon Brelsford -- Bemba-speaking women of Zambia in a century of religious change (1892-1992) / Hugo F. Hinfelaar -- Cultural summary: Bemba / Robert O. Lagacé and Ian Skoggard -- Bemba myth and ritual / Kevin B. Maxwell -- A modern movement of witch-finders ; Chisungu ; Land, labour and diet in Northern Rhodesia ; Reciprocal clan relationships among the Bemba of N.E. Rhodesia ; The political system of the Bemba tribe / Audrey Isabel Richards. |
| Abstract | The Bemba are the largest ethnic group in the Northern Province of Zambia. This file includes nine works. Five of these are by Audrey Richards, a British social anthropologist and major authority on the Bemba. Richards carried out her field work in a two-and-a-half-year period between 1930 and 1934. Her major ethnography is primarily a functional analysis of Bemba subsistence activities and diet as related to the kinship system, political organization, ceremonial life, and values. Her other works included here are an analytical study of the Bamucapi, or witch-finders movement; the origin and functions of ritual sib relationships among the Bemba and the closely allied Bisa; a good general description of the Bemba political system; and a description and interpretation of the chisungu [cisungu], or girl's initiation ceremony. A colonial administrator, William Brelsford, provides a study of the succession of Bemba chiefs. The missionary H. Barnes provides an early account and commentary on the Bemba belief in the soul and its relation to the naming system. Two later studies examine the impact of Christianity on Bemba society and culture. |
| General note | Title from Web page (viewed Feb. 28, 2008). |
| General note | This portion of eHRAF world cultures was last updated in 1996 and is a revision and update of the microfiche file. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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