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Speaking with vampires: rumor and history in colonial Africa
Luise White
Year: 2008, c2000.
Publisher:  University of California Press. 
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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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Title: Speaking with vampires : rumor and history in colonial Africa Luise White.
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White, Luise
Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2008, c2000.
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Subject Headings: • Vampires -- Africa, East
• Vampires -- Africa, Central
• Folklore -- Africa, East
• Folklore -- Africa, Central
• Blood -- Folklore
• Africa, East -- Colonial influence
• Africa, Central -- Colonial influence
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