Rituals and Vital Processes

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State and companies looked to discourage birth spacing through gifts and feeding programmes
Congo
1 of 8
Midwives were trained in a new form of infibulation but it proved ineffective
Northern Sudan
2 of 8
British maternity hospitals looked to educate women on 'correct' hygiene and childrearing
Tanganyika
3 of 8
Mine marriages existed and were over looked as a means of keeping miners away from town women
South Africa
4 of 8
Change in naming of children as infant mortality imporved
Uganda
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Change to burying of all dead and the importance of retaining own land for burial
Kikuyu
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Processes of embalming and burial continued as a means of controlling spirtuality
Bemba
7 of 8
Teenage relations and practice of non-sexual intimacy frowned upon by missionaries
Kikuyu
8 of 8

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Midwives were trained in a new form of infibulation but it proved ineffective

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Northern Sudan

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British maternity hospitals looked to educate women on 'correct' hygiene and childrearing

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Mine marriages existed and were over looked as a means of keeping miners away from town women

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Change in naming of children as infant mortality imporved

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