LEADER 03691nam 2200685 450 001 9910808140703321 005 20230207214226.0 010 $a1-4744-7122-6 010 $a0-7486-5295-7 010 $a0-7486-7940-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9781474471220 035 $a(CKB)2670000000163047 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000628468 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12226376 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000628468 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10712033 035 $a(PQKB)11654740 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055728 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6145248 035 $a(DE-B1597)616172 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781474471220 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000163047 100 $a20200627d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMedicine murder in colonial Lesotho $ethe anatomy of a moral crisis /$fColin Murray and Peter Sanders 210 1$aEdinburgh :$cEdinburgh University Press,$d[2005] 210 4$dİ2005 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 493 p., [16] p. of plates) $cill., maps, ports 225 1 $aInternational African Library ;$v31 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7486-2284-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tLIST OF MAPS -- $tLIST OF TABLES, FIGURES AND GRAPHS -- $tNOTE ON PHOTOGRAPHS -- $tPREFACE -- $tNOTE ON NAMES, ORTHOGRAPHY AND PRONUNCIATION -- $tABBREVIATIONS -- $tINTRODUCTION -- $tPART I MEDICINE MURDER: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND, POLITICAL CONTEXT AND CASE STUDIES -- $t1 BASUTOLAND: 'A VERY PRICKLY HEDGEHOG' -- $tCase Study 1 THE CASE OF THE COBBLER'S HEAD: MORIJA, 1945 -- $t2 MEDICINE MURDER: BELIEF AND INCIDENCE -- $tCase Study 2 'THE CHIEFS OF TODAY HAVE TURNED AGAINST THE PEOPLE': KOMA-KOMA, 1948 -- $t3 MEDICINE MURDER: THE DEBATES OF THE LATE 1940s -- $tCase Study 3 THE 'BATTLE OF THE MEDICINE HORNS': 'MAMATHE'S, LATE 1940s -- $t4 NARRATIVE AND COUNTER-NARRATIVE: EXPLAINING MEDICINE MURDER -- $tCase Study 4 'A MOST UNSAVOURY STATE OF AFFAIRS': MOKHOTLONG, 1940s-50s -- $t5 DIAGNOSES AND RESOLUTIONS: FROM FAILURE TO RECRIMINATION TO SILENCE -- $tINTERLUDE MEDICINE MURDER AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION -- $tPART II MEDICINE MURDER: AN ANALYSIS OF PROCESS -- $t6 MURDERERS AND THEIR MOTIVES -- $t7 PLOTS, MURDERS, MUTILATIONS AND MEDICINE -- $t8 POLICE INVESTIGATIONS -- $t9 THE JUDICIAL PROCESS -- $tAFTERMATH -- $tCONCLUSION -- $tADDENDUM: TOWARDSF~EWORKSOF COMPARISON -- $tAPPENDIX -- $tNOTES -- $tSOURCES -- $tINDEX 330 8 $aMurray amd Sanders investigate the rising trend in the late 1940s and early 1950s of the practice of 'medicine murder' in the British colony of Lesotho. They analyse the political cultural and social circumstances which allowed the practice to thrive and the circumstances which saw its demise. 410 0$aInternational African library ;$v31. 606 $aBlood accusation$zLesotho 606 $aJustice, Administration of$zLesotho 606 $aMurder$zLesotho 607 $aLesotho$xSocial conditions 607 $aLesotho$xPolitics and government$yTo 1966 607 $aLesotho$2swd 615 0$aBlood accusation 615 0$aJustice, Administration of 615 0$aMurder 676 $a305.8924 686 $aMI 69096$2rvk 700 $aMurray$b Colin$f1948-$01654183 702 $aSanders$b Peter$f1938- 712 02$aInternational African Institute. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808140703321 996 $aMedicine murder in colonial Lesotho$94005865 997 $aUNINA