| Edition |
ACLS Humanities E-Book XML edition. |
| Series |
Studies on the history of society and culture
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ACLS Humanities E-Book
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| File Type |
Electronic text and image data. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: Intranet. |
| Note |
Description based on t.p. screen of 2008-01-11. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Blood 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. |
| Original Version |
Transcribed from: Speaking with vampires : rumor and history in colonial Africa / Luise White. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000. xvi, 352 p. : maps ; 24 cm. 0520217039 0520217047 |
| Subject |
Vampires -- Africa, East.
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Vampires -- Africa, Central.
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Folklore -- Africa, East.
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Folklore -- Africa, Central.
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Africa, East -- Colonial influence.
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Africa, Central -- Colonial influence.
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Blood -- Folklore.
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| Added Author |
American Council of Learned Societies.
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| Added Title |
Rumor and history in colonial Africa |
| In: |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| Standard No. |
2027/heb94147 hdl |
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