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

"A highly original study. This book links medical work with maternity work in the context of arguments about gender relations and about feminist perspectives on writing history."--Gillian Feeley-Harnik, author of "A Green Estate: Restoring Independence in Madagascar"

List of contents

Illustrations

Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Crocodiles and Wealth

2 Doctors and Airplanes

3 Dining and Surgery

4 Nurses and Bicycles

5 Babies and Forceps

6 Colonial Maternities

7 Debris

Departures

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Nancy Rose Hunt

Summary

Investigates how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Featuring stories about autopsies and bicycles, obstetric surgery and male initiation, this title reveals how concerns about strange objects and procedures fashioned the hybrid social world of colonialism and its aftermath in Mobutu's Zaire.

Product details

• Authors: Hunt, Nancy Rose Hunt, Nancy Rosehunt
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.1999
• EAN: 9780822323662
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2366-2
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 234 mm x 36 mm
• Weight: 812 g
• Series: Body, Commodity, Text; Body, Commodity, Text: Studies; Body, Commodity, Text; Body, Commodity, Text: Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology