A Colonial Lexicon
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A Colonial Lexicon
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Author : Nancy Rose Hunt
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1999-11-15
A Colonial Lexicon written by Nancy Rose Hunt and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-11-15 with Social Science categories.
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. Relying on archival research in England and Belgium, as well as fieldwork in the Congo, Hunt reconstructs an ethnographic history of a remote British Baptist mission struggling to survive under the successive regimes of King Leopold II’s Congo Free State, the hyper-hygienic, pronatalist Belgian Congo, and Mobutu’s Zaire. After exploring the roots of social reproduction in rituals of manhood, she shows how the arrival of the fast and modern ushered in novel productions of gender, seen equally in the forced labor of road construction and the medicalization of childbirth. Hunt focuses on a specifically interwar modernity, where the speed of airplanes and bicycles correlated with a new, mobile medicine aimed at curbing epidemics and enumerating colonial subjects. Fascinating stories about imperial masculinities, Christmas rituals, evangelical humor, colonial terror, and European cannibalism demonstrate that everyday life in the mission, on plantations, and under a strongly Catholic colonial state was never quite what it seemed. In a world where everyone was living in translation, privileged access to new objects and technologies allowed a class of “colonial middle figures”—particularly teachers, nurses, and midwives—to mediate the evolving hybridity of Congolese society. 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.
A Nervous State
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Author : Nancy Rose Hunt
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2015-12-30
A Nervous State written by Nancy Rose Hunt and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-30 with History categories.
In A Nervous State, Nancy Rose Hunt considers the afterlives of violence and harm in King Leopold’s Congo Free State. Discarding catastrophe as narrative form, she instead brings alive a history of colonial nervousness. This mood suffused medical investigations, security operations, and vernacular healing movements. With a heuristic of two colonial states—one "nervous," one biopolitical—the analysis alternates between medical research into birthrates, gonorrhea, and childlessness and the securitization of subaltern "therapeutic insurgencies." By the time of Belgian Congo’s famed postwar developmentalist schemes, a shining infertility clinic stood near a bleak penal colony, both sited where a notorious Leopoldian rubber company once enabled rape and mutilation. Hunt’s history bursts with layers of perceptibility and song, conveying everyday surfaces and daydreams of subalterns and colonials alike. Congolese endured and evaded forced labor and medical and security screening. Quick-witted, they stirred unease through healing, wonder, memory, and dance. This capacious medical history sheds light on Congolese sexual and musical economies, on practices of distraction, urbanity, and hedonism. Drawing on theoretical concepts from Georges Canguilhem, Georges Balandier, and Gaston Bachelard, Hunt provides a bold new framework for teasing out the complexities of colonial history.
Fatal Skins
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Author : Jessica May Howell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Fatal Skins written by Jessica May Howell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with categories.
The Colonial Disease
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Author : Maryinez Lyons
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-06-06
The Colonial Disease written by Maryinez Lyons and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-06-06 with History categories.
A case-study in the history of sleeping sickness, relating it to the western 'civilising mission'.
Suturing New Medical Histories Of Africa
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Author : Nancy Rose Hunt
language : en
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Release Date : 2013
Suturing New Medical Histories Of Africa written by Nancy Rose Hunt and has been published by LIT Verlag Münster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Medical categories.
'Suturing' suggests closing a wound, making an incision, editing a film, or stitching together parts, locations, and points of view. The word is a helpful one for today's historians of disease, suffering, and medical practice in Africa. Whether focusing on a hospital or shrine, on malaria, trauma, witchcraft, or nursing, historians are grappling in new ways with the problems of joining locations and viewpoints, of tethering pasts with the present. New challenges arise when thinking about Africa's place in today's world of global health and biosecurity, war zones and heritage monies, emerging medical markets and self-treatment devices. Suturing points to new kinds of creativity with sources, evidence, and interactivity. As new digital capacities transform how history is engaged and produced, the word suturing helps to draw attention to the question of audiences and publics for African medical histories in the 21st century, as demonstrated in this book. (Series: Carl Schlettwein Lectures - Vol. 7)
Triumph Of Racism The History Of White Supremacy In Africa And How Shithole Entered The U S Presidential Lexicon
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Author : Emmanuel Neba-Fuh
language : en
Publisher: Miraclaire Publishing
Release Date : 2021-04-05
Triumph Of Racism The History Of White Supremacy In Africa And How Shithole Entered The U S Presidential Lexicon written by Emmanuel Neba-Fuh and has been published by Miraclaire Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-05 with History categories.
Emmanuel Neba-Fuh in this comprehensive chronological compilation and thorough narrative of the history of white supremacy in Africa provide an unflinching fresh case that African poverty - a central tenet of the “shithole” demonization, is not a natural feature of geography or a consequence of culture, but a direct product of imperial extraction from the continent – a practice that continues into the present. A brutal and nefarious tale of slave trade, genocides, massacres, dictators supported, progressive leaders murdered, weapon-smuggling, cloak-and-dagger secret services, corruption, international conspiracy, and spectacular military operations, he raised the most basic and fundamental question - how was Africa (the world’s richest continent) raped and reduced to what Donald J. Trump called “shithole?” (V. Mbanwie )
Words In Motion
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Author : Carol Gluck
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2009-12-04
Words In Motion written by Carol Gluck and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-04 with Social Science categories.
On the premise that words have the power to make worlds, each essay in this book follows a word as it travels around the globe and across time. Scholars from five disciplines address thirteen societies to highlight the social and political life of words in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The approach is consciously experimental, in that rigorously tracking specific words in specific settings frequently leads in unexpected directions and alters conventional depictions of global modernity. Such words as security in Brazil, responsibility in Japan, community in Thailand, and hijāb in France changed the societies in which they moved even as the words were changed by them. Some words threatened to launch wars, as injury did in imperial Britain’s relations with China in the nineteenth century. Others, such as secularism, worked in silence to agitate for political change in twentieth-century Morocco. Words imposed or imported from abroad could be transformed by those who wielded them to oppose the very powers that first introduced them, as happened in Turkey, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Taken together, this selection of fourteen essays reveals commonality as well as distinctiveness across modern societies, making the world look different from the interdisciplinary and transnational perspective of “words in motion.” Contributors. Mona Abaza, Itty Abraham, Partha Chatterjee, Carol Gluck, Huri Islamoglu, Claudia Koonz, Lydia H. Liu, Driss Maghraoui, Vicente L. Rafael, Craig J. Reynolds, Seteney Shami, Alan Tansman, Kasian Tejapira, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Lexicon Universal Encyclopedia
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Grolier
Release Date : 1986
Lexicon Universal Encyclopedia written by and has been published by Grolier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Reference categories.
A twenty-one volume encyclopedia with 32,000 entries and more than 16,000 illustrations.
Lexicon On Geography Of Development
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Author : Saroj Kumar Pal
language : en
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Release Date : 2005
Lexicon On Geography Of Development written by Saroj Kumar Pal and has been published by Concept Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Economic development categories.
Traveling Civilization
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Traveling Civilization written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Vietnam categories.
