Speaking with Vampires Rumor and History in Colonial Africa

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Book title
Speaking with Vampires Rumor and History in Colonial Africa
Subject
Africa / General, Folklore & Mythology, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
ISBN
9780520217041
Subject Area
Social Science, History
Publication Name
Speaking with Vampires : Rumor and History in Colonial Africa
Publisher
University of California Press
Item Length
9 in
Publication Year
2000
Series
Studies on the History of Society and Culture Ser.
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.9 in
Author
Luise White
Item Weight
19.6 Oz
Item Width
5.9 in
Number of Pages
370 Pages
Category

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520217047
ISBN-13
9780520217041
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1585240

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
370 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Speaking with Vampires : Rumor and History in Colonial Africa
Publication Year
2000
Subject
Africa / General, Folklore & Mythology, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, History
Author
Luise White
Series
Studies on the History of Society and Culture Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
19.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
5.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
99-036924
Dewey Edition
22
Series Volume Number
37
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
398.20967
Synopsis
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, their throats cut so their blood drained into huge buckets. In Kampala, the police were said to abduct Africans and keep them in pits, where their blood was sucked. Luise White presents and interprets vampire stories from East and Central Africa as a way of understanding the world as the storytellers did. Using gossip and rumor as historical sources in their own right, she assesses the place of such evidence, oral and written, in historical reconstruction. White conducted more than 130 interviews for this book and did research in Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia. In addition to presenting powerful, vivid stories that Africans told to describe colonial power, the book presents an original epistemological inquiry into the nature of historical truth and memory, and into their relationship to the writing of history.
LC Classification Number
99-36924

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