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GRUESOME RUMOURS, THE REALITY QUESTION AND WRITING HISTORY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2003

PETER GESCHIERE
PETER GESCHIERE
Affiliation:
Amsterdam University and University of Leiden
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Abstract

Madumo: A Man Bewitched. By ADAM ASHFORTH. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; Cape Town: David Philip, 2000. Pp. vii+255. Rand 90 (ISBN 0-226-02971-9).

Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa. By LUISE WHITE. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. xvi+351. £31.50/$50 (ISBN 0-520-21703-9); £12.50/$19.95, paperback (ISBN 0-520-21704-7).

Keywords

Anthropologycolonialhistoriographypost-colonialwitchcraft
Type
Review Article
Information
The Journal of African History , Volume 43 , Issue 3 , November 2002 , pp. 499 - 501
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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