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Medicine Murder in Colonial Lesotho: The Anatomy of a Moral Crisis (International African Library)
Medicine Murder in Colonial Lesotho The Anatomy of a Moral Crisis - International African Library
Author: Colin Murray, Peters Sanders
Medicine murder involved the cutting of body parts from victims, usually while they were still alive. These parts were then used in medicines intended to enhance the power of the murderers. A startling increase in cases of medicine murder apparently took place in Basutoland (now Lesotho), in southern Africa, in the late 1940s and the early 1950s...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780748622849
ISBN-10: 0748622845
Publication Date: 10/1/2005
Pages: 368
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Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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