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| Title: | Federal Administration, Rank, and Civil Strife among Bemba Royals and Nobles |
| Author: | Werbner, Richard P. |
| Year: | 1967 |
| Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute |
| Volume: | 37 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Period: | January |
| Pages: | 22-49 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Zambia |
| Subjects: | traditional polities Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
| External links: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1157194 https://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:4011-1967-037-00-000002 |
| Abstract: | The Bemba kingdom in North-Eastern Zambia must be viewed as a federation and, moreover, as a stratified federation because its diverse ranks of ruler were drawn from different strata of the kingdom. The purpose of this essay is to reanalyse the nineteenth-century federation of the Bemba in terms of the political process that went on in it. This means recognizing the inadequacy of familiar dichotomies: the classification of civil wars as either rebellions or revolutions and the further classification of rebellions as alternatively resulting in secession or reunification. Administration and politics among Bemba need to be understood in the light of political theories such as those of Max Weber. Here the earlier changes in royal and noble vassalage, the changes in political relations between superiors and inferiors who were hereditary, Bemba lords prior to British rule, after 1860, are discussed. Some of the various categories of Bemba rulers are treated. References; notes; genealogies; French summary. |
