Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 352 Seiten)
,
Karten
ISBN:
9780520922297
Series Statement:
Studies on the history of society and culture 37
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Currencies and Talk -- 1 . Blood and Words: Writing History with (and about) Vampire Stories -- 2. Historicizing Rumor and Gossip -- 3. "Bandages on Your Mouth": The Experience of Colonial Medicine in East and Central Africa -- 4. "Why Is Petrol Red?" The Experience of Skilled and Semi-Skilled Labor in East and Central Africa -- 5. "A Special Danger": Gender, Property, and Blood in Nairobi,1919-193 -- 6. "Roast Mutton Captivity": Labor, Trade, and Catholic Missions in Colonial Northern Rhodesia -- 7. Blood, Bugs, and Archives: Debates over Sleeping- Sickness Control in Colonial Northern Rhodesia,1931-1939 -- 8. Citizenship and Censorship: Politics, Newspapers, and "a Stupefier of Several Women" in Kampala in the 1950s -- 9. Class Struggle and Cannibalism: Storytelling and History Writing on the Copperbelts of Colonial Northern Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo -- 10. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Credits -- Index
Note:
In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520217041
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520217034
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe White, Luise Speaking with vampires Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000 ISBN 0520217039
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0520217047
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Ostafrika
;
Zentralafrika
;
Kolonialismus
;
Vampir
;
Blut
;
Volksglaube
DOI:
10.1525/9780520922297
URL:
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