ISBN:
0520217039
,
0520217047
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
Serie:
Studies on the history of society and culture 37
Serie:
Studies on the history of society and culture
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Speaking with Vampires : Rumor and History in Colonial Africa
DDC:
398.2/0967
Schlagwort(e):
Vampires Africa, East
;
Vampires Africa, Central
;
Folklore Africa, East
;
Folklore Africa, Central
;
Blood Folklore
;
Africa, East Colonial influence
;
Africa, Central Colonial influence
;
Vampires
;
Africa, East
;
Vampires
;
Africa, Central
;
Folklore
;
Africa, East
;
Folklore
;
Africa, Central
;
Africa, East
;
Colonial influence
;
Africa, Central
;
Colonial influence
;
Blood
;
Folklore
;
Ostafrika
;
Zentralafrika
;
Kolonialismus
;
Vampir
;
Blut
;
Volksglaube
Kurzfassung:
An African politician recalled that in 1952, a man returned to his home area in central Kenya, much to the surprise of his neighbors: He had been missing since 1927. We thought he had been slaughtered by the Nairobi Fire Brigade between 1930 1940 for his blood, which we believed was taken for use by the Medical Department for the treatment of Europeans with anaemic diseases. In 1986, however, a man in western Kenya told my assistant and I that it was the police, not the firemen, who captured Africans ( ordinary people just associated firemen with bloodsucking because of the color of their equipment ) and kept their victims in pits beneath the police station.
Kurzfassung:
During the colonial period, Africans told each other terrifying rumours that Africans who worked for white colonists captured unwary residents and took their blood. This text interprets vampire stories from East and Central Africa as a way of understanding the world as the storytellers did
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Preliminaries; Contents; List of 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, 1919-1939; 6. "Roast Mutton Captivity": Labor, Trade, and Catholic Missions in Colonial Northen Rhodesia
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
7. Blood, Bugs, and Archives: Debates over Sleeping-Sickness Control in Colonial Northern Rhodesia, 1931-19398. 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;
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
,
A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program
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