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Fatness and culture among the southern Mongo (Zaire): the case of the primparous nursing woman
African study monographs • 12 (3) • Published In 1991 • Pages: 149-160
By: Pagezy, Hélène.
Abstract
This article describes a motherhood ritual among the Mongo of Zaire in which a first time mothers is secluded from her husband for a long time after delivery. It argues the physical change mothers show during this time of restriction and improved care is an example of interaction between culture and biology.
- Subjects
- Postnatal care
- Childbirth
- Pregnancy
- Diet
- Personal grooming
- Ornament
- Status, role, and prestige
- Normal garb
- Gender status
- Verbal arts
- Arranging a marriage
- Mode of marriage
- Ethnoanatomy
- Ritual
- culture
- Mongo
- HRAF PubDate
- 2010
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Central Africa
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2008
- Field Date
- 1979-1980
- Coverage Date
- 1979-1980
- Coverage Place
- central Congo Basin, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Notes
- Hélène Pagezy
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-169)
- LCSH
- Mongo (African people)