A Colonial Lexicon
Subtitle: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo (Body, Commodity, Text)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 475
ISBN-13: 9780822323310
Subjects: Cultural studies; Sociobiology; Congo (Democratic Republic); Cultural And Social Anthropology; Women's Studies - History; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Congo; Anthropology - Cultural; History; African Studies; Gender Studies/Feminist Theory; Postcolonial Studies; Anthropology - General; Birth customs; Childbirth; Christianity; Religious aspects
First sentence: Crocodiles had "for many months been taking steady toll of men, women, and children" on the Upper Congo River not far from Yakusu.