Speaking with vampires [electronic resource] : rumor and history in colonial Africa / Luise White.
2000
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Speaking with vampires [electronic resource] : rumor and history in colonial Africa / Luise White.
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Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2000.
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xvi, 352 p. : maps ; 24 cm
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Studies on the history of society and culture
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-344) and index.
Contents
Bood 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.
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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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 access: Intranet. This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
American philosophy series ; no. 7.
Studies on the history of society and culture (Series)
American philosophy series ; no. 7.
Studies on the history of society and culture (Series)
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