The Religion of the Barotse

Record summary

Max Gluckman’s work on Barotse religious ideas is a lead for examining ancestors, ritual authority, misfortune and the social handling of claims involving invisible or deceased agents. It may help researchers compare apparition narratives with political history, funerary practice and divination. The work should be read as an anthropological account of Lozi religion, not as verification of ghost encounters. Terminology, translation and the relationship between Gluckman’s analysis and Lozi informants require checking in the original text and subsequent scholarship. This is AI-recalled material for discovery only.