TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pratten,David
TI  - The Man-Leopard Murders: History and Society in Colonial Nigeria 
T2  - International African Library : IAL
SN  - 9780748625536
AV  - HV8079.H6 
U1  - 363.25952309669966.903 
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - Anang (African people)
KW  - Nigeria, Southern
KW  - Murder
KW  - Investigation
KW  - African Studies
KW  - HISTORY / Africa / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF FIGURES --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; GLOSSARY --; 1 INTRODUCTION: THE MAN-LEOPARD MURDER MYSTERIES --; 2 OF LEOPARDS AND LEADERS: ANNANG SOCIETY TO 1909 --; 3 RESISTANCE AND REVIVAL, 1910–1929 --; 4 PROGRESSIVES AND POWER, 1930–1938 --; 5 WAR AND PUBLIC, 1939–1945 --; 6 INLAWS AND OUTLAWS, 1946 --; 7 DIVINATIONS AND DELEGATIONS, 1947 --; 8 THE POLITICS OF IMPROVEMENT, 1947–1960 --; 9 ECHOS OF EKPE OWO --; NOTES --; REFERENCES --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - This book is an account of murder and politics in Africa, and an historical ethnography of southern Annang communities during the colonial period. Its narrative leads to events between 1945 and 1948 when the imperial gaze of police, press and politicians was focused on a series of mysterious deaths in south-eastern Nigeria attributed to the 'man-leopard society'. These murder mysteries, reported as the 'biggest, strangest murder hunt in the world', were not just forensic but also related to the broad historical impact of commercial, Christian and colonial aid relations on Annang society
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748631001?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748631001
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748631001/original
ER  -