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Author Hunt, Nancy Rose.

Title A colonial lexicon of birth ritual, medicalization, and mobility in the Congo / Nancy Rose Hunt
Published Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 475 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Body, commodity, text
Body, commodity, text.
Contents 1. Crocodiles and wealth -- 2. Doctors and airplanes -- 3. Dining and surgery -- 4. Nurses and bicycles -- 5. Babies and forceps -- 6. Colonial maternities -- 7. Debris -- Departures
Summary Colonial relations in Zaire viewed through the attempts of missionaries to impose European midwifery and birthing practices
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-445) and index
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Subject Yakusu (Mission : Congo) -- History
SUBJECT Yakusu (Mission : Congo) fast
Subject Birth customs -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
Birth customs -- Religious aspects.
Childbirth -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Protestant churches -- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History
Culture.
Labor, Obstetric -- ethnology
Colonialism -- history
Culture
Missions and Missionaries -- history
Vocabulary
culture note.
culture (concept)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Customs & Traditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Culture
Birth customs
Birth customs -- Religious aspects
Childbirth -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Manners and customs
Protestant churches -- Missions
Kraamgebruiken.
Medicalisering.
Protestantse kerken.
Geburtshilfe
Medizinische Versorgung
Geburt
SUBJECT Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Social life and customs
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Subject Congo (Democratic Republic)
Demokratische Republik Kongo
Kongo <Demokratische Republik>
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822381365
0822381362
1283062232
9781283062237
Other Titles Birth ritual, medicalization, and mobility in the Congo