Speaking with vampires : rumor and history in colonial Africa / Luise White.
- White, Luise
- Date:
- 2008, ©2000
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About this work
Also known as
Rumor and history in colonial Africa
Publication/Creation
Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2008, ©2000.
Edition
ACLS Humanities E-Book XML edition.
Notes
Description based on t.p. screen of 2008-01-11.
Contents
Blood and words: writing history with (and about) vampire stories -- Historicizing rumor and gossip -- "Bandages on your mouth": the experience of colonial medicine in East and Central Africa -- "Why is petrol red?": the experience of skilled and semi-skilled labor in East and Central Africa -- "A special danger": gender, property, and blood in Nairobi, 1919-1939 -- "Roast mutton captivity": labor, trade, and Catholic missions in colonial Northern Rhodesia -- Blood, bugs, and archives: debates over sleeping-sickness control in colonial Northern Rhodesia, 1931-1939 -- Citizenship and censorship: politics, newspapers, and "a stupefier of several women" in Kampala in the 1950s -- Class struggle and cannibalism: storytelling and history writing on the copperbelts of colonial Northern Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction note
Transcribed from: Speaking with vampires : rumor and history in colonial Africa / Luise White. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000. xvi, 352 p. : maps ; 24 cm. 0520217039 0520217047