A Colonial Lexicon: of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo (Body, Commodity, Text)

by NancyRoseHunt (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1999

  $42.82

  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.