White, Luise. <br/><br/>
Speaking with vampires   rumor and histo ry in colonial Africa /   [electronic resource] : 
  Rumor and history in colonial Africa 
Luise White. 
 - Berkeley, Calif. :   University of California Press,   c2000. 
 - xvi, 352 p. :   maps ;   24 cm. 
 - Studies on the history of society and culture .
 - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-344) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/> Electronic text and image data. <br/> Ann Arbor, Mich. : <br/> University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, <br/> 2006. <br/> Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. <br/> ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) <br/> Mode of a ccess: Intranet. <br/> This volume is made possible by a grant from the An drew W. Mellon Foundation. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/> Vampires-- Africa, East.<br/> Vampires-- Africa, Central.<br/> Folklore-- Africa, East.<br/> Folklore-- Africa, Central.<br/> Blood-- Folklore.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/> Africa, East-- Colonial influence.<br/> Africa, Central-- Colonial influence.