A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo - Body, Commodity, Text - Nancy Rose Hunt - Books - Duke University Press - 9780822323662 - November 15, 1999
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Nancy Rose Hunt
A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo - Body, Commodity, Text

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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.

496 pages, 47 b&w photographs, 8 maps

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released November 15, 1999
ISBN13 9780822323662
Publishers Duke University Press
Pages 496
Dimensions 238 × 154 × 38 mm   ·   766 g
Language English  

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