Modernity and the Belgian Congo

A new Salmonella type (S. Zega) from the Belgian Congo.

From the intestines of ducklings which became ill or died during an epidemic in Zega (Lac Albel't) 2 Salmonella strains belonging to a new type were isolated. One strain (1740) was sent to the International Salmonella Centre in Copenhagen and analysed. The biochemical behaviour of this new type is as follows: No fermentation of adonitol, inositol, lactose, salicin, and sucrose. No production of...

Cutting the Flesh: Surgery, Autopsy and Cannibalism in the Belgian Congo

Within the colonial setting of the Belgian Congo, the process of cutting the body, whether living or dead, lent itself to conflation with cannibalism and other fantastic consumption stories by both Congolese and Belgian observers. In part this was due to the instability of the meaning of the human body and the human corpse in the colonial setting. This essay maps out different views of the cada...

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

The modernity mess

When we had the good fortune to study the Klasies River Mouth Cave remains at the South African Museum in 1989, the isolated partial zygomatic KRM 16651 presented us with a morphometric challenge. The face of the bone appeared quite large, but only a small portion of the inferior border was preserved, and that mostly under the temporal process. No measuring points allowed standard comparisons t...