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Speaking with vampires: rumor and history in colonial Africa
Luise White
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Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright and Permissions
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[No Head in Print Version]
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Maps
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Acknowledgments
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A Note on Currencies and Talk
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CHAPTER 1 Blood and Words Writing History with (and about) Vampire Stories
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SITING VAMPIRES
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TRANSLATING VAMPIRES
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TRUTH IN VAMPIRES, TRUTH IN ORAL HISTORY
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VAMPIRES AND COLONIAL HISTORIOGRAPHER
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SOURCES
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HOW TO READ THIS BOOK
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CHAPTER 2 Historicizing Rumor and Gossip
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GOSSIP AND RESPECTABILITY
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VOICES AND SUBJECTS
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GOSSIP AND SILENCE
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WHO IS GOSSIP ABOUT?
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WHAT IS RUMOR ABOUT?
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RUMOR, GOSSIP, AND HISTORIANS
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CHAPTER 3 "Bandages on Your Mouth" The Experience of Colonial Medicine in East and Central Africa
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GENRES, VOICES, AND EVIDENCE
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WESTERN WRITING AND WESTERN MEDICINE
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AFRICAN SPEAKING AND WESTERN MEDICINE
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SMEARING, SPRAYING, AND ORAL HISTORY
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CONCLUSIONS
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CHAPTER 4 "Why Is Petrol Red?" The Experience of Skilled and Semi-Skilled Labor in East and Central Africa
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VAMPIRES AND WAGE LABOR
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VEHICLES AND VAMPIRES
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LOCATING BUREAUCRACY
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CONCEALING MEN
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REVEALING LABOR
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TOOLS OF EMPIRE
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CONCLUSIONS
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CHAPTER 5 "A Special Danger" Gender, Property, and Blood in Nairobi, 1919–1939
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URBANIZATION IN KENYA
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BLOOD AND BONE IN EAST AFRICA
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PITS AND PLACE IN PUMWANI
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DISCARDING BLOOD
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CONCLUSIONS
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CHAPTER 6 "Roast Mutton Captivity" Labor, Trade, and Catholic Missions in Colonial Northern Rhodesia
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GOSSIP AND AUTHORITY
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EVIDENCE: ZAMBIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY
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EVIDENCE: VAMPIRE ACCUSATIONS
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EVIDENCE: MISSIONS AND EXTRACTIONS
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DETAILS: BLOOD AND THE EUCHARIST
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DETAILS: WORK AND PAY
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DETAILS: WHITE MEN
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DETAILS: TALK
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CHAPTER 7 Blood, Bugs, and Archives Debates over Sleeping-Sickness Control in Colonial Northern Rhodesia, 1931–1939
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BUG STORIES
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LAND, FLIES, AND SCIENCE
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ANIMALS, FLIES, AND OFFICIALS
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BLOOD STORIES
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SCIENCE, FLIES, AND LAND
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OFFICIALS, ANIMALS, AND FLIES
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CHAPTER 8 Citizenship and Censorship Politics, Newspapers, and "a Stupefier of Several Women" in Kampala in the 1950s
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VAMPIRES, POLITICS, AND THE COLONIAL SITUATION
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NEWS, RUMOR, AND NEWSPAPERS
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VILLAINS AND VAMPIRES
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STORIES AND STRATEGIES
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CONCLUSIONS
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CHAPTER 9 Class Struggle and Cannibalism Storytelling and History Writing on the Copperbelts of Colonial Northern Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo
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JIGSAWS, HOLOGRAMS, AND LABOR HISTORY
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TWO COPPERBELTS, TWO HISTORIES
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WORK AND TALK
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MIGRANCY, STABILIZATION, AND CLOTHES
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STORIES AND MIGRANTS
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CHAPTER 10 Conclusions
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Notes
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CHAPTER 1 Blood and Words Writing History with (and about) Vampire Stories
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CHAPTER 2 Historicizing Rumor and Gossip
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CHAPTER 3 "Bandages on Your Mouth" The Experience of Colonial Medicine in East and Central Africa
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CHAPTER 4 "Why Is Petrol Red?" The Experience of Skilled and Semi-Skilled Labor in East and Central Africa
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CHAPTER 5 "A Special Danger" Gender, Property, and Blood in Nairobi, 1919–1939
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CHAPTER 6 "Roast Mutton Captivity" Labor, Trade, and Catholic Missions in Colonial Northern Rhodesia
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CHAPTER 7 Blood, Bugs, and Archives Debates over Sleeping-Sickness Control in Colonial Northern Rhodesia, 1931–1939
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CHAPTER 8 Citizenship and Censorship Politics, Newspapers, and "a Stupefier of Several Women" in Kampala in the 1950s
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CHAPTER 9 Class Struggle and Cannibalism Storytelling and History Writing on the Copperbelts of Colonial Northern Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo
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CHAPTER 10 Conclusions
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Bibliography
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ARCHIVAL SOURCES
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KENYA NATIONAL ARCHIVES, NAIROBI
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LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
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NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF ZAMBIA, LUSAKA
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RHODES HOUSE, OXFORD
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SAINT ANDREAS ABBEY, BRUGES
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SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
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UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
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WELLCOME INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE, LONDON
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PUBLISHED BOOKS AND ARTICLES
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OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS
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UNPUBLISHED MATERIALS
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Credits
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Index
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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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 |
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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Published: 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
- 9780520217041 (paper)
- 9780520217034 (hardcover)