A Colonial Lexicon of Birth Ritual, Medicalization & Mobility in the Congo

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Géographique

République démocratique du Congo (RDC)

Thématique

naissance, santé, médecine, vélo, bicyclette, mobilité, transport

Disciplinaire

histoire

Fiche provisoire

Titre A Colonial Lexicon of Birth Ritual, Medicalization & Mobility in the Congo
Type de publication Livre
Langue principale de la publication anglais
Année de publication 1999
Auteur Nancy Rose HUNT
Nombre de pages 496
Éditeur Duke University Press
Ville Londres = London
Durham
Genre essai - étude
Pays d'édition Royaume-Uni
États-Unis
ISBN (Forme EAN-13) 978-0-8223-2331-0
Résumé/Présentation "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. [...] Successfully blurring conventional distinctions between precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial situations, Hunt moves on to discuss the unexpected presence of colonial fragments in the vibrant world of today?s postcolonial Africa. / With its close attention to semiotics as well as sociology, A Colonial Lexiconwill interest specialists in anthropology, African history, obstetrics and gynecology, medical history, religion, and women?s and cultural studies." (site de l'éditeur, 11.2015)
Référence complète Hunt (Nancy), A Colonial Lexicon of Birth Ritual, Medicalization & Mobility in the Congo. Durham & London : Duke University Press, 1999, 496 p., 47 b&w photographs, 8 maps - ISBN: 978-0-8223-2331-0. Un lexique colonial du rituel de naissance, de la médicalisation et de la mobilité au Congo

Auteurs

Nancy Rose HUNT

Biographie : Professeur d'histoire à l'université du Michigan.
Nationalité : États-Unis