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A Colonial Lexicon
- Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo
part of the Body, Commodity, Text series
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 496
- Published:
- November 15, 1999
- Dimensions:
- 238x154x38 mm.
- Weight:
- 766 g.
Delivery:
2-4 weeks
Expected delivery: October 24, 2024
Description of A Colonial Lexicon
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.
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