Nancy Rose Hunt

A Nervous State

Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Nancy Rose Hunt is Professor of History at the University of Michigan, and the author of the prizewinning A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo, also published by Duke University Press. ¿

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780822359463
• ISBN-10: 0822359464
• Artikelnr.: 42413541

Autorenporträt

Nancy Rose Hunt is Professor of History at the University of Michigan, and the author of the prizewinning A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo, also published by Duke University Press.  

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction  1
1. Registers of Violence  27
2. Maria N'koi  61
3. Emergency Time  95
4. Shock Talk and Flywhisks  135
5. A Penal Colony, an Infertility Clinic  167
6. Motion  207
Conclusion. Field Coda and Other Endings  237
Notes  255
Bibliography  309
Index  343