#gluckman

[lifeandtimesofsix]

[social-anther]

“The Barotse [Lozi], a Northern Rhodesian people on the upper Zambezi, ... say that man’s cleverness drove God in fright from the earth.”

Max Gluckman, “The Magic of Despair” (1954)

Photograph: “The Kuomboka Ceremony”, http://www.barotseland.info/KUOMBOKA_CEREMONY.htm

[social-anther]

Swazi polity was a system in which there were rebels, not revolutionaries. ... The rebellion is in fact waged to defend the kingship against the king. The people have an interest in the values of kingship and fight for them.

Max Gluckman, “Rituals of Rebellion in South-East Africa” (1953)