Format:
1 online resource (528 pages)
ISBN:
9781474471220
Series Statement:
International African Library EUP
Content:
This book offers some comprehensive answers to difficult, complex and controversial questions on the topic of 'medicine murder'.
Content:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- List of maps -- List of tables, figures and graphs -- Note on photographs -- Preface -- Note on names, orthography and pronounciation -- 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.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780748622849
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780748622849
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=6145248
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