Medicine Murder in Colonial Lesotho

This book offers some comprehensive answers to difficult, complex and controversial questions on the topic of 'medicine murder'.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Murray, Colin
Otros Autores: Sanders, Peter, Sanders, Peters
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2005.
Colección:International African Library EUP.
Temas:
Blood accusation > Lesotho.
Justice, Administration of > Lesotho.
Murder > Lesotho.
Meurtre rituel > Lesotho.
Meurtre > Lesotho.
Blood accusation
Justice, Administration of
Murder
Lesotho
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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