Medicine Murder in Colonial Lesotho
Subtitle: The Anatomy of a Moral Crisis (International African Library)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: October 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780748622849
Subjects: African history: from c 1900 -; Crime & criminology; c 1945 to c 1960; Fiction; History - General History; Lesotho; Africa - South - General; General; History / Africa / South / General
Description: Murray amd Sanders investigate the rising trend in the late 1940s and early 1950s of the practice of 'medicine murder' in the British colony of Lesotho. They analyse the political, cultural and social circumstances which allowed the practice to thrive and the circumstances which saw its demise.