Materialising Hygiene: Remedies, Commodities and Images-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Materialising Hygiene: Remedies, Commodities and Images

Published:2023 Issue: Volume: Page:379-416
ISSN:2635-1633
Container-title:Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Author:

Ratschiller Nasim Linda Maria

Abstract

AbstractThis chapter shows that hygiene had profound practical and material consequences for people in both West Africa and Europe. Hygiene was more than a metaphor used to encode religious virtues, scientific imperatives, cultural values, social interactions and colonial anxieties. It was a practice that materialised itself in and on individual bodies, and crucially depended on material aids such as drugs, medical equipment, sanitary articles and specific clothing. The Basel Mission actively engaged with these tools of hygiene, from an early interest in natural remedies in West Africa to the establishment of a thriving commodity culture surrounding tropical hygiene around 1900. Remedies and commodities circulating through missionary networks shaped bodily practices, while images produced and propagated by the Basel Mission left a visual legacy that informs our understanding of purity, health and cleanliness to this day. Examined critically, these material and visual sources reveal the profoundly interactive nature of missionary encounters and testify to the conceptual, practical and material exchanges between people in West Africa and Europe.

Publisher

Springer International Publishing

Link

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-031-27128-1_10

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