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A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo - Body, Commodity, Text Nancy Rose Hunt
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A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo - Body, Commodity, Text
Nancy Rose Hunt
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 |
