A Colonial Lexicon
Subtitle: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo
Series: Body, Commodity, Text
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 475
ISBN-13: 9780822323662
Subjects: Cultural studies; Women's Studies - History; Congo (Democratic Republic); Birth customs; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Congo; History; Anthropology - Cultural; African Studies; Gender Studies/Feminist Theory; Postcolonial Studies; Anthropology - General; 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.