Medicine murder in colonial Lesotho : the anatomy of a moral crisis / / Colin Murray and Peter Sanders
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| Autore: |
Murray Colin <1948->
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| Titolo: |
Medicine murder in colonial Lesotho : the anatomy of a moral crisis / / Colin Murray and Peter Sanders
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| Pubblicazione: | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2005] |
| ©2005 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiii, 493 p., [16] p. of plates) : ill., maps, ports |
| Disciplina: | 305.8924 |
| Soggetto topico: | Blood accusation - Lesotho |
| Justice, Administration of - Lesotho | |
| Murder - Lesotho | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Lesotho Social conditions |
| Lesotho Politics and government To 1966 | |
| Lesotho | |
| Classificazione: | MI 69096 |
| Persona (resp. second.): | SandersPeter <1938-> |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF MAPS -- LIST OF TABLES, FIGURES AND GRAPHS -- NOTE ON PHOTOGRAPHS -- PREFACE -- NOTE ON NAMES, ORTHOGRAPHY AND PRONUNCIATION -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I MEDICINE MURDER: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND, POLITICAL CONTEXT AND CASE STUDIES -- 1 BASUTOLAND: 'A VERY PRICKLY HEDGEHOG' -- Case Study 1 THE CASE OF THE COBBLER'S HEAD: MORIJA, 1945 -- 2 MEDICINE MURDER: BELIEF AND INCIDENCE -- Case Study 2 'THE CHIEFS OF TODAY HAVE TURNED AGAINST THE PEOPLE': KOMA-KOMA, 1948 -- 3 MEDICINE MURDER: THE DEBATES OF THE LATE 1940s -- Case Study 3 THE 'BATTLE OF THE MEDICINE HORNS': 'MAMATHE'S, LATE 1940s -- 4 NARRATIVE AND COUNTER-NARRATIVE: EXPLAINING MEDICINE MURDER -- Case Study 4 'A MOST UNSAVOURY STATE OF AFFAIRS': MOKHOTLONG, 1940s-50s -- 5 DIAGNOSES AND RESOLUTIONS: FROM FAILURE TO RECRIMINATION TO SILENCE -- INTERLUDE MEDICINE MURDER AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION -- PART II MEDICINE MURDER: AN ANALYSIS OF PROCESS -- 6 MURDERERS AND THEIR MOTIVES -- 7 PLOTS, MURDERS, MUTILATIONS AND MEDICINE -- 8 POLICE INVESTIGATIONS -- 9 THE JUDICIAL PROCESS -- AFTERMATH -- CONCLUSION -- ADDENDUM: TOWARDSF~EWORKSOF COMPARISON -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- SOURCES -- INDEX |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Murray 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Medicine murder in colonial Lesotho |
| ISBN: | 1-4744-7122-6 |
| 0-7486-5295-7 | |
| 0-7486-7940-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910808140703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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International African library ; ; 31.