Title: Medicine Murder in Colonial Lesotho
Subtitle: The Anatomy of a Moral Crisis (International African Library)
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.
Subjects: Politics and government, Murder, Witchcraft, Religious aspects of Murder, Violence, Social conditions, Blood accusation, Religious aspects, Medizin, Mord, Lesotho, Trials (murder), Traditional medicine, Human sacrifice, South africa, politics and government, History, History, 20th Century, Homicide, Investigation, Case studies
Places: Lesotho, Southern Africa
Time periods: To 1966