A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo

by Nancy Rose Hunt

Book Overview

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.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822323664
• ISBN13: 9780822323662
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.9" x 9.1"