A centre of wonders : the body in early America / edited by Janet Moore Lindman and Michele Lise Tarter.

Other author Lindman, Janet Moore.
Other author Tarter, Michele Lise, 1960-
Format Book
Publication InfoIthaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2001.
Descriptionvii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Human body--Social aspects. --United States. --History.
Human body--Symbolic aspects. --United States. --History.
United States--History.
United States--Social life and customs.

Contents "The earthly frame, a minute fabrick, a centre of wonders" / Janet Moore Lindman, Michele Lise Tarter -- Witchcraft, bodily affliction, and domestic space in seventeenth-century New England / Robert Blair St. George -- Food, assimilation, and the malleability of the human body in early Virginia / Trudy Eden -- "Civilized" bodies and the "savage" environment of early New Plymouth / Martha L. Finch -- The body politic and the body somatic / Jacquelyn C. Miller -- Murderous uncleanness / Kathleen M. Brown -- "Clean of blood, without stain or mixture" / Jennifer M. Spear -- A "doctrine of signatures" / Susan M. Stabile -- Nursing fathers and brides of Christ / Elizabeth Maddock Dillon -- Quaking in the light / Michele Lise Tarter -- "Antic deportments and Indian postures" / Alice Nash -- The body Baptist / Janet Moore Lindman -- Hannah Duston's bodies / Teresa A. Toulouse -- Body language / Nancy Shoemaker -- Emancipation and the em-bodiment of "race" / Joanne Pope Melish -- The problematics of absence / Todd D. Smith.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 255-269) and index.
LCCN 00013068
ISBN080143601X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0801487390 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks GT497.U6 C46 2001 ✔ Available Place Hold