Speaking With Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa - Couverture rigide

White, Luise

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0520217039 ISBN 13 : 9780520217034

Editeur : University of California Press, 2000

Synopsis

During the colonial period, Africans told each other terrifying rumours 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. This text presents and interprets vampire stories from East and Central Africa as a way of understanding the world as the storytellers did. Using gossip and rumour as historical sources in their own right, it assesses the place of such evidence, oral and written, in historical reconstruction.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Luise White is Associate Professor of History at the University of Florida. Her previous book, The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi (1990), won the Herskovits Prize of the African Studies Association.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520217039
• ISBN 13: 9780520217034
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 368
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• Personne responsable: non disponible