'Tribes' and the people who read books: Managing history in Colonial Zambia

Journal of Southern African Studies

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 203-218

  Crehan, Kate ^a  

^a NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

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EID: 0002249216     PISSN: 03057070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03057079708708533     Document Type: Review

References (51)

1. Zambia National Archives [hereafter ZNA], Sect. 2/135, 1951-1952 Annual Report on African Affairs North-Westem Area.
2. A. Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks (London, 1971), p. 324.
3. A pseudonym.
4. T. Ranger, 'The Invention of Tradition in Colonial Africa', in E. Hobsbawm and T. Ranger (eds), The Invention of Tradition (Cambridge, 1983), p. 263.
5. T. O. Ranger and O. Vaughan (eds), Legitimacy and the State in Twentieth Century Africa (London, 1991), p. 82.
6. Ibid., p. 90.
7. R. Short, African Sunset (London, 1973), p. 56.
8. A. Roberts, A History of Zambia (London, 1976), p. 175.
9. Ibid., p. 29.
10. F. H. Melland, In Witch-Bound Africa: An Account of the Primitive Kaonde Tribe and Their Beliefs (London, 1923), p. 304.
11. Ibid., p. 8.
12. ZNA 7/1/13/6, Provincial Annual Report Kasempa 1930.
13. ZNA Sect. 2/936, Kasempa Tour Reports 1940-47, Tour Report No. 2, 1940.
14. ZNA Sect. 2/936, Kasempa Tour Reports 1940-47, Kasempa Tour Report No. 2, 1947.
15. ZNA Sect. 2/934, Tour Reports Kasempa 1933-1939.
16. ZNA Sect. 2/939, Tour Reports Kasempa District 1949.
17. ZNA Sect. 2/947, Kasempa Tour Records 1957, Tour Report No. 2, 1957.
18. ZNA Sect. 2/137, North-West Province Annual Reports 1954-5.
19. ZNA Sect. 2/940, Kasempa Tour Reports 1950-51, Tour Report No. 7 of 1950, my emphasis.
20. M. Bernal, Black Athena: the Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Volume 1, Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985 (London, 1987).
21. R. Williams, Keywords (London, 1983, 2nd edn), p. 250.
22. ZNA Sect. 2/941, Kasempa Tour Reports 1951, Tour Report 9/1951.
23. ZNA, NR 4/529, Courts of Appeal and Meeting of Kaonde Chiefs, 1951.
24. J. L. Wright, 'Kaonde Grammar', in Michael Mannet al, Language in Zambia: Grammatical Sketches, Vol. I Bemba and Kaonde (Lusaka, 1977), p. 109.
25. J. L. Wright, English-Kaonde Vocabulary (Ndola, 1985).
26. M. Gluckman, Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society (Oxford, 1965), p. 292-293.
27. In a hearing in 1940 to decide whether he should be granted exemption from military service as a conscientious objector, Wilson argued for the vital role of his research at the RLI, the lack of such research being, as Wilson saw it, one of the reasons why Europe was now at war. The argument was met with some scepticism by at least one member of the exemption board who remarked that he did not see how 'a study of the native laws of Bantu society would solve many of Europe's social problems'. See ZNA, Sect. 1/1650, V.I.
28. M. Gluckman, 'Seven-Year Research Plan of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute of Social Studies in British Central Africa', Journal of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute (December, 1945), pp. 1-32.
29. Ibid, p. 28.
30. R. Brown, 'Anthropology and Colonial Rule: the Case of Godfrey Wilson and the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, Northern Rhodesia', in Talal Asad (ed), Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter (London, 1973).
31. A. L. Epstein, Urbanization and Kinship: the Domestic Domain on the Copperbelt of Zambia 1950-1956 (London, 1981); J. C. Mitchell, The Yao Village (Manchester, 1956); V. Turner, Schism and Continuity in an African Society: a Study of Ndembu Village Life (Manchester, 1957); W. Watson, Tribal Cohesion in a Money Economy (Manchester, 1958).
32. A. L. Epstein, Urbanization and Kinship: the Domestic Domain on the Copperbelt of Zambia 1950-1956 (London, 1981); J. C. Mitchell, The Yao Village (Manchester, 1956); V. Turner, Schism and Continuity in an African Society: a Study of Ndembu Village Life (Manchester, 1957); W. Watson, Tribal Cohesion in a Money Economy (Manchester, 1958).
33. A. L. Epstein, Urbanization and Kinship: the Domestic Domain on the Copperbelt of Zambia 1950-1956 (London, 1981); J. C. Mitchell, The Yao Village (Manchester, 1956); V. Turner, Schism and Continuity in an African Society: a Study of Ndembu Village Life (Manchester, 1957); W. Watson, Tribal Cohesion in a Money Economy (Manchester, 1958).
34. A. L. Epstein, Urbanization and Kinship: the Domestic Domain on the Copperbelt of Zambia 1950-1956 (London, 1981); J. C. Mitchell, The Yao Village (Manchester, 1956); V. Turner, Schism and Continuity in an African Society: a Study of Ndembu Village Life (Manchester, 1957); W. Watson, Tribal Cohesion in a Money Economy (Manchester, 1958).
35. R. P. Werbner, 'The Manchester School in south-central Africa', Annual Review of Anthropology, 13 (1984) provides a useful overview.
36. W Watson, 'The Kaonde Village,' Rhodes-Livingstone Journal, XV (1954).
37. M. Gluckman, Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society, (Oxford, 1965).
38. E. R. Leach, Political Systems of Highland Burma (London, 1954).
39. Gluckman, Politics, Law and Ritual, p. xxiv, emphasis added.
40. Ibid., p. xxi.
41. Ibid., p. xv.
42. Ibid., p. xv.
43. Ibid., p. xxv.
44. Ibid., p. 279.
45. Ibid., p. 281.
46. Ibid., p. 285, emphasis added.
47. Gluckman wrote a number of monographs and articles about the Lozi, one of the most influential being The Judicial Process among the Barotse of Northern Rhodesia (Manchester, 1955).
48. Malland, In Witchbound Africa, p. 305.
49. M. Channock, Law, Custom and Social Order: the Colonial Experience in Malawi and Zambia (Cambridge, 1985) is a wonderfully rich exploration of the complicated process by which African customary law was codified and shaped by both colonial administrators and particular interests within African communities.
50. D. H. Davies, Zambia in Maps (London, 1971), p. 114.
51. M. Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination (Austin, 1981), pp. 276-277.