Bastos, Cristiana2018-08-022018-08-022018Bastos, C. (2018). The Hut-Hospital as Project and as Practice. Mimeses, Alterities, and Colonial Hietatchies, Social Analysis [Issue 2: States of Imitation: Mimetic Governmentality and Colonial Rule] 62 (2), 76-970155-977Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/34404This article analyzes one kind of colonial equipment designed in the early twentieth century for the purpose of providing medical assistance to the indigenous populations of Angola and Mozambique. I will refer to it as a ‘hut-hospital’, although it had several forms and designations. The layout of hut-hospitals consisted of a main building and a number of hut-like units that were supposedly more attractive to the indigenous population and therefore more efficient than the large, rectangular buildings of the main colonial hospitals. Using different sources, including three-dimensional plaster models of hut-hospitals, photographs, legal documents, and 1920s conference papers and articles, I will investigate the relatively obscure history of this colonial artifact while exploring the use of imitation as part of the repertoire of colonial governance.engAngolacolonial architecturecolonialismhospitalmedicinemimesisMozambiquejournal article10.3167/sa.2018.620204