Speaking with vampires : rumor and history in colonial Africa /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	White, Luise
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2000]
Series:	Studies on the history of society and culture ; 37.
Subjects:	Vampires > Africa, East. Vampires > Africa, Central. Folklore > Africa, East. Folklore > Africa, Central. Africa, East > Colonial influence. Africa, Central > Colonial influence. Blood > Folklore.

Table of 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.