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  1. Against Humanity
    Lessons from the Lord's Resistance Army
    Author: Dubal, Sam
    Published: [2018]; ©2018
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    “Gunya is a woman in her late twenties. Soldiers of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) abducted her when she was eleven years old and forcefully conscripted her into the rebel ranks. Gunya spent a little over a decade with the rebels before deserting.... more

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    “Gunya is a woman in her late twenties. Soldiers of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) abducted her when she was eleven years old and forcefully conscripted her into the rebel ranks. Gunya spent a little over a decade with the rebels before deserting. While there, she gave birth to a son with Onen, an LRA soldier. Though abducted, she expresses her continued support for the LRA and their tactics, admitting that she sometimes thinks of going back to the lum [bush] when life becomes hard as a civilian at home.” This is not a book about crimes against humanity. Rather, it is an indictment of the very idea of humanity, the concept that lies at the heart of human rights and humanitarian missions. Based on fieldwork in northern Uganda, anthropologist and medical doctor Sam Dubal brings readers into the inner circle of the Lord’s Resistance Army, an insurgent group accused of rape, forced conscription of children, and inhumane acts of violence. Dubal speaks with former LRA rebels as they find personal meaning in wartime violence, politics, and spirituality—experiences that observers often place outside of humanity’s boundaries. What emerges is an unorthodox and provocative question: What would it mean to be truly against humanity? And how does one honor life existing outside hegemonic notions of the good?

     
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  2. Speaking with vampires
    rumor and history in colonial Africa
    Author: White, Luise
    Published: [2000]; © 2000
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley

    Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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... more

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    Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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,1919-193 -- 6. "Roast Mutton Captivity": Labor, Trade, and Catholic Missions in Colonial Northern Rhodesia -- 7. Blood, Bugs, and Archives: Debates over Sleeping- Sickness Control in Colonial Northern Rhodesia,1931-1939 -- 8. 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

     
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  3. Speaking with vampires
    rumor and history in colonial Africa
    Author: White, Luise
    Published: [2000]; © 2000
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley

    Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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... more

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    Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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,1919-193 -- 6. "Roast Mutton Captivity": Labor, Trade, and Catholic Missions in Colonial Northern Rhodesia -- 7. Blood, Bugs, and Archives: Debates over Sleeping- Sickness Control in Colonial Northern Rhodesia,1931-1939 -- 8. 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

     
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