wyszukanych pozycji: 6
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A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo
ISBN: 9780822323310 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 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... A Colonial Lexicon is the first historical investigation of how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Rejecting the colonial encounter parad...
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540,07 zł |
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A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo
ISBN: 9780822323662 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 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... A Colonial Lexicon is the first historical investigation of how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Rejecting the colonial encounter parad...
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141,28 zł |
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A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo
ISBN: 9780822359654 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 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...
In A Nervous State, Nancy Rose Hunt considers the afterlives of violence and harm in King Leopold s Congo Free State. Discarding catastrophe as...
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131,18 zł |
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A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo
ISBN: 9780822359463 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. 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...
In A Nervous State, Nancy Rose Hunt considers the afterlives of violence and harm in King Leopold s Congo Free State. Discarding catastrophe as...
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cena:
515,36 zł |
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Psychiatric Contours: New African Histories of Madness
ISBN: 9781478030348 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
cena:
131,18 zł |
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Psychiatric Contours: New African Histories of Madness
ISBN: 9781478026112 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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494,64 zł |