A Colonial Lexicon
Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo (Body, Commodity, Text)
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Word Count
118,750 words, Guess
Page Count
475 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL9566956M
- ISBN-139780822323310
- ISBN-100822323311
- OCLC Control Number41090786
- OCLC Control Numbercoloniallexicono01hunt
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number99026315
- WikidataQ57231046
- Goodreads2833667
Classifications
- LCCGT2465.C74 H85 1999
Description
A Colonial Lexicon is the first historical investigation of how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Rejecting the “colonial encounter” paradigm pervasive in current studies, Nancy Rose Hunt elegantly weaves together stories about autopsies and bicycles, obstetric surgery and male initiation, to reveal how concerns about strange new objects and procedures fashioned the hybrid social world of colonialism and its aftermath in Mobutu’s Zaire.
First Sentence
Crocodiles had "for many months been taking steady toll of men, women, and children" on the Upper Congo River not far from Yakusu.
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