3 MEDICINE MURDER: THE DEBATES OF THE LATE 1940s

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. LIST OF MAPS ix
4. LIST OF TABLES, FIGURES AND GRAPHS ix
5. NOTE ON PHOTOGRAPHS ix
6. PREFACE xi
7. NOTE ON NAMES, ORTHOGRAPHY AND PRONUNCIATION xiv
8. ABBREVIATIONS xv
9. INTRODUCTION 1
10. PART I MEDICINE MURDER: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND, POLITICAL CONTEXT AND CASE STUDIES
11. 1 BASUTOLAND: 'A VERY PRICKLY HEDGEHOG' 13
12. Case Study 1 THE CASE OF THE COBBLER'S HEAD: MORIJA, 1945 37
13. 2 MEDICINE MURDER: BELIEF AND INCIDENCE 52
14. Case Study 2 'THE CHIEFS OF TODAY HAVE TURNED AGAINST THE PEOPLE': KOMA-KOMA, 1948 68
15. 3 MEDICINE MURDER: THE DEBATES OF THE LATE 1940s 87
16. Case Study 3 THE 'BATTLE OF THE MEDICINE HORNS': 'MAMATHE'S, LATE 1940s 99
17. 4 NARRATIVE AND COUNTER-NARRATIVE: EXPLAINING MEDICINE MURDER 118
18. Case Study 4 'A MOST UNSAVOURY STATE OF AFFAIRS': MOKHOTLONG, 1940s-50s 136
19. 5 DIAGNOSES AND RESOLUTIONS: FROM FAILURE TO RECRIMINATION TO SILENCE 156
20. INTERLUDE MEDICINE MURDER AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION 176
21. PART II MEDICINE MURDER: AN ANALYSIS OF PROCESS
22. 6 MURDERERS AND THEIR MOTIVES 189
23. 7 PLOTS, MURDERS, MUTILATIONS AND MEDICINE 213
24. 8 POLICE INVESTIGATIONS 233
25. 9 THE JUDICIAL PROCESS 254
26. AFTERMATH 277
27. CONCLUSION 284
28. ADDENDUM: TOWARDSF~EWORKSOF COMPARISON 299
29. APPENDIX 311
30. NOTES 425
31. SOURCES 464
32. INDEX 481