| Description |
1 online resource (374 pages) |
| Series |
Studies on the History of Society and Culture ; 37 |
| Contents |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020) |
| Subject |
Blood -- Folklore.
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Folklore -- Africa, Central
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Vampires -- Africa, Central
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Folklore -- Africa, East.
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Vampires -- Africa, East
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HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
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Blood.
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Folklore.
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Vampires.
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Africa, East.
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Central Africa.
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| Genre/Form |
Folklore.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520922297 |
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0520922298 |
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1597349127 |
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9781597349123 |
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