Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo (Body, Commodity, Text)
Edición de la obra Colonial Lexicon
| Autor | Nancy Rose Hunt |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Duke University Press |
| Fecha de publicación | December 1999 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 475 |
| Formato | Hardcover |
| ISBN-13 | 9780822323310 |
| ISBN-10 | 0822323311 |
| OCLC | 41090786 |
| LCCN | 99026315 |
| Número de Cutter | H942c |
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.