Surfacing up : psychiatry and social order in colonial Zimbabwe, 1908-1968 / Lynette A. Jackson.

Ithaca, N.Y. ; London : Cornell University Press, 2005.

xiii, 230 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-222) and index.

"Lobengula's wives lived here" : the colonization of space and meaning and the birth of the asylum in Southern Rhodesia -- Bodies in custody : Ingutsheni Lunatic Asylum, 1908-1933 -- Black men, white "civilization," and routes to Ingutsheni -- Women interrupted : traveling women, anxious men, and ascriptions of madness -- Psychiatric modernity in black and white, 1933-1942 -- The Africans do not complain : the monologue of reason about madness at Ingutsheni, 1942-1968.