Speaking with vampires : rumor and history in colonial Africa
"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
Print Book, English, ©2000
University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif., ©2000
Folklore
xvi, 352 pages : maps ; 24 cm
9780520217034, 9780520217041, 0520217039, 0520217047
41646019
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