ACLS Humanities E-Book: Speaking with vampires: rumor and history in colonial Africa

Speaking with vampires: rumor and history in colonial Africa

White, Luise.

Year: c2000.

Publisher: University of California Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

List of Maps

Acknowledgments

A Note on Currencies and Talk

PART ONE

1. Blood and Words: Writing History with (and about) Vampire Stories

2. Historicizing Rumor and Gossip

PART TWO

3. "Bandages on Your Mouth": The Experience of Colonial Medicine in East and Central Africa

4. "Why Is Petrol Red?" The Experience of Skilled and Semi-Skilled Labor in East and Central Africa

PART THREE

5. "A Special Danger": Gender, Property, and Blood in Nairobi, 1919-1939

6. "Roast Mutton Captivity": Labor, Trade, and Catholic Missions in Colonial Northern Rhodesia

7. Blood, Bugs, and Archives: Debates over Sleeping-Sickness Control in Colonial Northern Rhodesia, 1931-1939

8. Citizenship and Censorship: Politics, Newspapers, and "a Stupefier of Several Women" in Kampala in the 1950s

9. Class Struggle and Cannibalism: Storytelling andd History Writing on the Copperbelts of Colonial Northern Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo

10. Conclusions

Bibliography

Credits

Index

reviews

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Title:

Speaking with vampires : rumor and history in colonial Africa Luise White.

Author:

White, Luise

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2008
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Speaking with vampires : rumor and history in colonial Africa Luise White.
White, Luise
Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, c2000.

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Subject Headings:

• Vampires -- Africa, East
• Vampires -- Africa, Central
• Folklore -- Africa, Central
• Blood -- Folklore
• Folklore -- Africa, East
• Africa, East -- Colonial influence
• Africa, Central -- Colonial influence

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