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Medicine Murder in Colonial Lesotho
This book offers some comprehensive answers to difficult, complex and controversial questions on the topic of 'medicine murder'.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | International African Library EUP.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Intro -- CONTENTS -- List of maps -- List of tables, figures and graphs -- Note on photographs -- Preface -- Note on names, orthography and pronunciation -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION -- A defining moment -- Official and popular reaction -- Key questions -- Investigating medicine murder -- 'Ritual murder': the potential for broader study -- Part I MEDICINE MURDER: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND, POLITICAL CONTEXT AND CASE STUDIES -- 1 Basutoland: 'a very prickly hedgehog' -- A policy of benign neglect -- Economic failure and chiefly abuse -- The Pim Report -- The Khubelu reforms of 1938 | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The Treasury reforms of 1946 -- Disputes over the succession -- CASE STUDY 1 The case of the cobbler's head: Morija, 1945 -- 'A Migratory Body' -- The investigation -- The preparatory examination and the trial -- The judgement -- Discords -- 2 Medicine murder: belief and incidence -- Sesotho beliefs in medicine -- Early evidence of medicine murder -- The incideence of medicine murder: 'a very startling increase?' -- CASE STUDY 2 'The chiefs of today have turned against the people': Koma-Koma, 1948 -- 'Something going on in this village' -- The high court trial and the judgement | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Struggles in the Makabane chieftainship -- Allegations of police misconduct -- The failure of appeal -- 3 Medicine Murder: the debates of the late 1940 -- 'This country is ... overcast with a terrible cloud' -- Chiefs, politicians and police -- The High Commissioner, the chieftainship and the question of incorporation -- Towards a climax of despair -- CASE STUDY 3 The 'battle of the medicine horns': 'Mamathe's, late 1940s -- Two murders -- Motives and context: two principles -- Motives and context: the lesser players -- The judgement -- Allegations against the police and the accomplice witnesses | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The appeal: accomplice evidence -- Aftermath -- 4 Narrative and counter-narrative: explaining medicine murder -- Commission of enquiry, 1949 -- Reaction to the Jones report, 1951 -- The official narrative: 'heart of darkness' -- The counter-narrative: colonial conspiracy -- CASE STUDY 4 'A most unsavoury state of affairs': Mokhotlong, 1940-50s -- A significant cluster? -- Mokhotlong district: a political history -- Medicine murder in 'Mantšebo's area -- Matlere acquitted (1): the murder of Tšoeunyuna Rabolai, 1952 -- Matlere acquitted (2): the murder of Kaiser Mofana, 1959 | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The notoriety of Sesemane Kao -- 5 Diagonses and resolutions: from failure to recrimination to silence -- Proposals for change -- The Round Table Conference of 1953 and the anti-liretlo campaign -- Attacks on the police, 1956: the council and the conference -- The late 1950s and the early 1960s: the government loses interest -- Independence -- INTERLUDE medicine murder and the literary imagination -- Part II MEDICINE MURDER: AN ANALYSIS OF PROCESS -- 6 Murderers and their motives -- Instigators -- Motives -- Accomplices -- 7 Plots, murders, mutilations and medicine -- Instigating a murder | |
| 500 | |a Choosing a victim | ||
| 520 | |a This book offers some comprehensive answers to difficult, complex and controversial questions on the topic of 'medicine murder'. | ||
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