Colonial Lexicon
Congo (democratic republic), social conditionsAfrican studiesFeminismPostcolonial and colonial studiesBirth customs
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Open LibraryAbout this book
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.
Themes & subjects
Congo (democratic republic), social conditionsAfrican studiesFeminismPostcolonial and colonial studiesBirth customsReligious aspects
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Congo (Democratic Republic)
About the author
Nancy Rose Hunt
1957
Nancy Rose Hunt is Professor of History at the University of Florida and author of A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo, published by Duke University Press.
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