Medicine murder in colonial Lesotho : the anatomy of a moral crisis / / Colin Murray and Peter Sanders |
Autore | Murray Colin <1948-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2005] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 493 p., [16] p. of plates) : ill., maps, ports |
Disciplina | 305.8924 |
Collana | International African Library |
Soggetto topico |
Blood accusation - Lesotho
Justice, Administration of - Lesotho Murder - Lesotho |
ISBN |
1-4744-7122-6
0-7486-5295-7 0-7486-7940-5 |
Classificazione | MI 69096 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790186803321 |
Murray Colin <1948-> | ||
Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2005] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Medicine murder in colonial Lesotho : the anatomy of a moral crisis / / Colin Murray and Peter Sanders |
Autore | Murray Colin <1948-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2005] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 493 p., [16] p. of plates) : ill., maps, ports |
Disciplina | 305.8924 |
Collana | International African Library |
Soggetto topico |
Blood accusation - Lesotho
Justice, Administration of - Lesotho Murder - Lesotho |
ISBN |
1-4744-7122-6
0-7486-5295-7 0-7486-7940-5 |
Classificazione | MI 69096 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808140703321 |
Murray Colin <1948-> | ||
Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2005] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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