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"Stories of the fantastic thrive on the edges of the discourses of the real, and White's call for a history of the supernatural is timely. Aside from beginning one here, the riches of African historiography and historical epistemology through which she navigates make this book a necessary and utterly pleasurable read."--"African Affairs
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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.
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.
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The name of the bloodsucker superstition is Mumiani. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vampire accusations, bloodsucking firemen, rubber sucking tubes, fly pickets, yellow fever department, blasting licenses, tsetse research, vampire rumors, elephant control, barter stores, vampire stories, vampire priests, tsetse control, late burning, vampire beliefs, provincial commissioner, tour reports, colonial medicine, witch beliefs, native affairs, royal politics, circulating stories, game rangers, blood accusations, game preservation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Northern Rhodesia, White Fathers, Central Africa, Belgian Congo, New York, Cambridge University Press, Siaya District, University of California Press, University of Chicago Press, Tanganyika Territory, South Africa, University of Wisconsin Press, World War, Impact of Rumor, Luise White, Oxford University Press, Annual Report, Anyango Mahondo, Indiana University Press, Zebede Oyoyo, Megan Vaughan, New Haven, Yale University Press, Joseph Nsubuga, Rhodes House New!
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The name of the bloodsucker superstition is Mumiani. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vampire accusations, bloodsucking firemen, rubber sucking tubes, fly pickets, yellow fever department, blasting licenses, tsetse research, vampire rumors, elephant control, barter stores, vampire stories, vampire priests, tsetse control, late burning, vampire beliefs, provincial commissioner, tour reports, colonial medicine, witch beliefs, native affairs, royal politics, circulating stories, game rangers, blood accusations, game preservation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Northern Rhodesia, White Fathers, Central Africa, Belgian Congo, New York, Cambridge University Press, Siaya District, University of California Press, University of Chicago Press, Tanganyika Territory, South Africa, University of Wisconsin Press, World War, Impact of Rumor, Luise White, Oxford University Press, Annual Report, Anyango Mahondo, Indiana University Press, Zebede Oyoyo, Megan Vaughan, New Haven, Yale University Press, Joseph Nsubuga, Rhodes House New!
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