Speaking with vampires [electronic resource] : rumor and histo ry in colonial Africa / Luise White.
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TextSeries: Studies on the history of society and culture | ACLS Humanities E-BookPublication details: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2000.Description: xvi, 352 p. : maps ; 24 cmOther title: - Rumor and history in colonial Africa
Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-344) and index.
Bood and words: writing history with (and about) vampire stories -- Historicizing rumor and gossip -- "Bandages on your mouth": the experie nce of colonial medicine in East and Central Africa -- "Why is petrol r ed?": the experience of skilled and semi-skilled labor in East and Cent ral Africa -- "A special danger": gender, property, and blood in Nairob i, 1919-1939 -- "Roast mutton captivity": labor, trade, and Catholic mi ssions in colonial Northern Rhodesia -- Blood, bugs, and archives: deba tes over sleeping-sickness control in colonial Northern Rhodesia, 1931- 1939 -- Citizenship and censorship: politics, newspapers, and "a stupef ier of several women" in Kampala in the 1950s -- Class struggle and can nibalism: storytelling and history writing on the copperbelts of coloni al Northern Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo.
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2006. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of a ccess: Intranet. This volume is made possible by a grant from the An drew W. Mellon Foundation.
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