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The man-leopard murders : history and society in colonial Nigeria / David Pratten

Catalog Data

Author:
Pratten, David  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 425 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Nigeria, Southern
Nigeria
Date:
2007
C2007
1900-1960
Notes:
Originally published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2007.
Summary:
"Focuses on the deaths of about 200 people in southern Nigeria in the mid-1940s. At the time, the deaths were explained as predation by shape-shifting leopard-men and native witchcraft. ... leads readers on a tortuous road to discoveries about local resistance to colonial and missionary encroachment. Pratten reveals how secret societies worked behind the scenes to impose authority at a time when traditional values were losing ground. Could the leopard murders have been a convenient way to take care of the spread of information that placed too much knowledge about native society in the hands of European authorities?"--Dust jacket.
Topic:
Murder--Investigation  Search this
Leopard men  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_824741