Speaking with vampires
White, Luise.
Speaking with vampires rumor and history 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. Studies on the history of society and culture. .
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 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.
Electronic text and image data.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
University of Michigan, Scholarly Publishing Office,
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.
0520217039 0520217047
Vampires--Africa, East.
Vampires--Africa, Central.
Folklore--Africa, East.
Folklore--Africa, Central.
Blood--Folklore.
Africa, East--Colonial influence.
Africa, Central--Colonial influence.
Electronic books.
Speaking with vampires rumor and history 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. Studies on the history of society and culture. .
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 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.
Electronic text and image data.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
University of Michigan, Scholarly Publishing Office,
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.
0520217039 0520217047
Vampires--Africa, East.
Vampires--Africa, Central.
Folklore--Africa, East.
Folklore--Africa, Central.
Blood--Folklore.
Africa, East--Colonial influence.
Africa, Central--Colonial influence.
Electronic books.