Speaking with Vampires : Rumor and History in Colonial Africa / / Luise White

• Autore: White Luise
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2000]; ©2000
• Edizione: Reprint 2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (372 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 398.2/0967
• Soggetto topico: Vampires - Africa, East; Vampires - Africa, Central; Folklore - Africa, East; Folklore - Africa, Central; Blood
• Soggetto geografico: Africa, East Colonial influence; Africa, Central Colonial influence
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Maps -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Currencies and Talk -- 1 . Blood and Words: Writing History with (and about) Vampire Stories -- 2. Historicizing Rumor and Gossip -- 3. "Bandages on Your Mouth": The Experience of Colonial Medicine in East and Central Africa -- 4. "Why Is Petrol Red?" The Experience of Skilled and Semi-Skilled Labor in East and Central Africa -- 5. "A Special Danger": Gender, Property, and Blood in Nairobi,1919-193 -- 6. "Roast Mutton Captivity": Labor, Trade, and Catholic Missions in Colonial Northern Rhodesia -- 7. Blood, Bugs, and Archives: Debates over Sleeping- Sickness Control in Colonial Northern Rhodesia,1931-1939 -- 8. Citizenship and Censorship: Politics, Newspapers, and "a Stupefier of Several Women" in Kampala in the 1950's -- 9. Class Struggle and Cannibalism: Storytelling and History Writing on the Copperbelts of Colonial Northern Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo -- 10. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Credits -- Index
• Altri titoli varianti: Rumor and history in colonial Africa
• Titolo autorizzato: Speaking with Vampires
• ISBN: 0-520-92229-8; 1-59734-912-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910495955303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II