Medicine Murder in Colonial Lesotho : : The Anatomy of a Moral Crisis / / Colin Murray, Peter Sanders.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Murray, Colin,; Sanders, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: International African Library : IAL
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (494 p.)

Medicine murder involved the cutting of body parts from victims, usually while they were still alive, to be used for the preparation of medicines intended to enhance the power of the perpetrators. A 'very startling' increase in cases of medicine murder apparently took place in Basutoland (...

Table of Contents

• 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