Abstract

CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION 'Murder at Ikot Okoro - Leopard Alleged' Leopard Men in Fact and Fiction A Social History of Murder 2. OF LEOPARDS AND LEADERS Power and Personhood Trade and Transformation Conversion and Conquest 3. RESISTANCE AND REVIVAL, 1910-1929 The Landscape of Power The Spirit Movement The Women's War 4. PROGRESSIVES AND POWER, 1930-38 Americans and Anthropology 'We shall not be ruled by our children' Women and the 'Infamous Traffic' 5. WAR AND PUBLIC, 1939-1945 'John Bull' and the Reading Public Cassava and Crime 'Audacious Leopards' and 'Atrocious Deeds' 6. INLAWS AND OUTLAWS, 1946 'The Time of Accusation' 'What is at the bottom of the leopard man epidemic?' 'The leopard that hides its spots' 7. DIVINATIONS AND DELEGATIONS, 1947 Police and Prophecy The Ibibio Union Touring Delegation The Man-Eating Leopard of Ikot Udoro 8. THE POLITICS OF 'IMPROVEMENT', 1947-1960 The Leopards' Legacy Nationalist Trajectories Expectations Revisited 9. ECHOES OF EKPE OWO.

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