Speaking with vampires : rumor and history in colonial Africa /

Annotation During the colonial period, Africans told each other terrifying rumors that Africans who worked for white colonists captured unwary residents and took their blood. In colonial Tanganyika, for example, Africans were said to be captured by these agents of colonialism and hung upside down, t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: White, Luise
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2000.
Colección:Studies on the history of society and culture.
Temas:
Vampires > Africa, East.
Vampires > Africa, Central.
Folklore > Africa, East.
Folklore > Africa, Central.
Blood > Folklore.
Blood.
Colonial influence.
Folklore.
Vampires.
Vampiers.
Volkscultuur.
Bloed.
Bijgeloof.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Africa, East > Colonial influence.
Africa, Central > Colonial influence.
Afrique orientale anglophone > Influence coloniale.
Afrique centrale > Influence coloniale.
Central Africa.
Africa, East.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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