Katrina Hb Keefer

Cannibalism Myths, Empire, and Identity in Colonial Sierra Leone

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Through careful analysis of court transcripts and modern scholarship on the 1913 Human Leopard cases in Sierra Leone, this book uncovers a complex web of judicial overreach, colonial ambitions, indigenous belief systems, European paranoia, animals whose habitat was being encroached upon, and socio-political turmoil.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781666965780
• ISBN-10: 1666965782
• Artikelnr.: 71230917

Autorenporträt

Katrina HB Keefer is adjunct professor of cultural studies at Trent University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Understanding the Leopard
Chapter 1: A Sketch of Sierra Leone and the Context for the Cases
Chapter 2: What Kind of Leopards Were They?
Chapter 3: Cannibalism as European Nightmare and as Spiritual Consumption
Chapter 4: The Court at Gbangbama
Chapter 5: Human Leopards and Poro
Chapter 6: Body Marking, the Orthography of the Skin, and Colonial
Assumptions
Chapter 7: Oath-taking, Medicines, and the Colonial Law
Chapter 8: The Special Commission Court Cases Concerning Human Leopards
Conclusion: Regional Tensions on Trial
Appendix: The People
Bibliography
About the Author