TY  - GEN
AU  -  White, Luise.
ED  -  American Council of Learned Societies.
TI  -  Speaking with vampires: rumor and histo ry in colonial Africa 
PY  - 2000///
CY  -  Berkeley, Calif.
PB  -  University of California Press
KW  -  Vampires
KW  -  Africa, East
KW  -  Africa, Central
KW  -  Folklore
KW  -  Blood
KW  -  Colonial influence
N1  -  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
UR  -  htt p://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.04147
ER  -