Stratification and Modern Changes in an Ancestral Cult

1 October 1949

journal article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Africa

Vol. 19 (4) , 324-331
https://doi.org/10.2307/1156407

Abstract

The present notes concern the Lwena, Chokwe, and Luchazi immigrants of the north-west of Northern Rhodesia, commonly referred to as the Balovale tribes. Like other Central African Bantu they are animists, and their ancestors through the ancestral cult form an essential element in the community of the living and the dead. The spirits of the ancestors are of communal significance to the kinship group to which they belong, and they are also of individual significance to living individuals within a kinship group.

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