Speaking with vampires: rumor and history in colonial Africa

White, Luise

Speaking with vampires: rumor and history in colonial Africa

Luise White 2008 © University of California Press

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9780520217041 (paper)
9780520217034 (hardcover)

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Cover
Title Page
Copyright and Permissions
[No Head in Print Version]
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Acknowledgments
A Note on Currencies and Talk
CHAPTER 1 Blood and Words Writing History with (and about) Vampire Stories
- SITING VAMPIRES
- TRANSLATING VAMPIRES
- TRUTH IN VAMPIRES, TRUTH IN ORAL HISTORY
- VAMPIRES AND COLONIAL HISTORIOGRAPHER
- SOURCES
- HOW TO READ THIS BOOK
CHAPTER 2 Historicizing Rumor and Gossip
- GOSSIP AND RESPECTABILITY
- VOICES AND SUBJECTS
- GOSSIP AND SILENCE
- WHO IS GOSSIP ABOUT?
- WHAT IS RUMOR ABOUT?
- RUMOR, GOSSIP, AND HISTORIANS
CHAPTER 3 "Bandages on Your Mouth" The Experience of Colonial Medicine in East and Central Africa
- GENRES, VOICES, AND EVIDENCE
- WESTERN WRITING AND WESTERN MEDICINE
- AFRICAN SPEAKING AND WESTERN MEDICINE
- SMEARING, SPRAYING, AND ORAL HISTORY
- CONCLUSIONS
CHAPTER 4 "Why Is Petrol Red?" The Experience of Skilled and Semi-Skilled Labor in East and Central Africa
- VAMPIRES AND WAGE LABOR
- VEHICLES AND VAMPIRES
- LOCATING BUREAUCRACY
- CONCEALING MEN
- REVEALING LABOR
- TOOLS OF EMPIRE
- CONCLUSIONS
CHAPTER 5 "A Special Danger" Gender, Property, and Blood in Nairobi, 1919–1939
- URBANIZATION IN KENYA
- BLOOD AND BONE IN EAST AFRICA
- PITS AND PLACE IN PUMWANI
- DISCARDING BLOOD
- CONCLUSIONS
CHAPTER 6 "Roast Mutton Captivity" Labor, Trade, and Catholic Missions in Colonial Northern Rhodesia
- GOSSIP AND AUTHORITY
- EVIDENCE: ZAMBIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY
- EVIDENCE: VAMPIRE ACCUSATIONS
- EVIDENCE: MISSIONS AND EXTRACTIONS
- DETAILS: BLOOD AND THE EUCHARIST
- DETAILS: WORK AND PAY
- DETAILS: WHITE MEN
- DETAILS: TALK
CHAPTER 7 Blood, Bugs, and Archives Debates over Sleeping-Sickness Control in Colonial Northern Rhodesia, 1931–1939
- BUG STORIES
- LAND, FLIES, AND SCIENCE
- ANIMALS, FLIES, AND OFFICIALS
- BLOOD STORIES
- SCIENCE, FLIES, AND LAND
- OFFICIALS, ANIMALS, AND FLIES
CHAPTER 8 Citizenship and Censorship Politics, Newspapers, and "a Stupefier of Several Women" in Kampala in the 1950s
- VAMPIRES, POLITICS, AND THE COLONIAL SITUATION
- NEWS, RUMOR, AND NEWSPAPERS
- VILLAINS AND VAMPIRES
- STORIES AND STRATEGIES
- CONCLUSIONS
CHAPTER 9 Class Struggle and Cannibalism Storytelling and History Writing on the Copperbelts of Colonial Northern Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo
- JIGSAWS, HOLOGRAMS, AND LABOR HISTORY
- TWO COPPERBELTS, TWO HISTORIES
- WORK AND TALK
- MIGRANCY, STABILIZATION, AND CLOTHES
- STORIES AND MIGRANTS
CHAPTER 10 Conclusions
Notes
- CHAPTER 1 Blood and Words Writing History with (and about) Vampire Stories
- CHAPTER 2 Historicizing Rumor and Gossip
- CHAPTER 3 "Bandages on Your Mouth" The Experience of Colonial Medicine in East and Central Africa
- CHAPTER 4 "Why Is Petrol Red?" The Experience of Skilled and Semi-Skilled Labor in East and Central Africa
- CHAPTER 5 "A Special Danger" Gender, Property, and Blood in Nairobi, 1919–1939
- CHAPTER 6 "Roast Mutton Captivity" Labor, Trade, and Catholic Missions in Colonial Northern Rhodesia
- CHAPTER 7 Blood, Bugs, and Archives Debates over Sleeping-Sickness Control in Colonial Northern Rhodesia, 1931–1939
- CHAPTER 8 Citizenship and Censorship Politics, Newspapers, and "a Stupefier of Several Women" in Kampala in the 1950s
- CHAPTER 9 Class Struggle and Cannibalism Storytelling and History Writing on the Copperbelts of Colonial Northern Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo
- CHAPTER 10 Conclusions
Bibliography
- ARCHIVAL SOURCES
- RHODES HOUSE, OXFORD
- PUBLISHED BOOKS AND ARTICLES
- OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS
- UNPUBLISHED MATERIALS
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Journal Abbreviation	Label	URL
IJAHS	33.2 (2000): 392-394	http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0361-7882%282000%2933%3A2%3C392%3ASWVRAH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I
AFSR	44.1 (Apr. 2001): 83-87	http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-0206%28200104%2944%3A1%3C83%3AVAH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U

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