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Fostermothers in Africa (Lactatio serotina)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2012

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Africa , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , January 1938 , pp. 108 - 109
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Copyright © International African Institute 1938

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page 108 note 1 The exact title of this important publication is: H. Ploss u. M. Bartels, Das Weib in der Natur- und Volkerkunde, 10. Auflage, herausgegeben von P. Bartels, Leipzig, 1913. The subject of lactatio serotina is treated on pages 507ff. Bartels has also published the following articles on the same subject in the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie: ‘Die Spät-Laktation der Kafferfrauen’, xx, Berlin 1888, p. 79.Google Scholar — ‘Lactatio serotina in Java’, xxviii, 1896, pp. 110–12.Google Scholar —‘Die Spät-Laktation’, xxviii, 1896, pp. 267–70.Google Scholar

page 109 note 1 A shrub bearing small red and black seeds which are used as ornaments in many parts of Africa. The German name for the shrub is Paternosterstrauch.

page 109 note 2 This cassava does not become soft through cooking and the natives therefore say that it retains all its valuable contents.