Bibliograph

Speaking with vampires, rumor and history in colonial Africa, Luise White

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Speaking with vampires, rumor and history in colonial Africa, Luise White

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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maps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Speaking with vampires

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

801665678

Responsibility statement

Luise White

Series statement

ACLS Humanities E-Book

Sub title

rumor and history in colonial Africa

Table Of 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

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Rumor and history in colonial Africa

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