Speaking with vampires rumor and histo ry in colonial Africa - White, Luise; American Council of Learned Societies (Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2000)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-344) and index.
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Keywords: Vampires -- Africa, East; Vampires -- Africa, Central; Folklore -- Africa, East; Folklore -- Africa, Central; Blood -- Folklore; Africa, East -- Colonial influence; Africa, Central -- Colonial influence