An edition of Colonial Lexicon (1999)
A Colonial Lexicon
Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo (Body, Commodity, Text)
By Nancy Rose Hunt
Publish Date
December 1999
Publisher
Duke University Press
Language
eng
Pages
475
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.
subjects: Congo (democratic republic), social conditions, African studies, Feminism, Postcolonial and colonial studies, Birth customs, Religious aspects, Childbirth, Christianity, History, Protestant churches, Missions, Social life and customs, Yakusu (Mission : Congo), Ethnology, Religious Missions, Colonialism, Vocabulary, Culture, Obstetric Labor, Medical care
Places: Congo (Democratic Republic)