Beschreibung:
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.
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