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Speaking with vampires: rumor and history in colonial Africa

Luise White 2008 © University of California Press
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  • 9780520217034 (hardcover)
  • 9780520217041 (paper)
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  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright and Permissions
  • [No Head in Print Version]
  • Maps
  • 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
      • KENYA NATIONAL ARCHIVES, NAIROBI
      • LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
      • NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF ZAMBIA, LUSAKA
    • RHODES HOUSE, OXFORD
      • SAINT ANDREAS ABBEY, BRUGES
      • SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
      • UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
      • WELLCOME INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE, LONDON
    • PUBLISHED BOOKS AND ARTICLES
    • OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS
    • UNPUBLISHED MATERIALS
  • Credits
  • Index

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IJAHS 33.2 (2000): 392-394 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0361-7882%282000%2933%3A2%3C392%3ASWVRAH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I
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