Speaking with Vampires

Rumor and History in Colonial Africa

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Luise White

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Studies on the History of Society and Culture

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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.

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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.

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May 9th, 2000

Author

Luise White

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Professional & Vocational

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2 maps

Pages

368

Series

Studies on the History of Society and Culture

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152x229x23

ISBN-13

9780520217041

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1994302

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