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1 online resource (vii, 283 pages) : illustrations |
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"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 |
| Summary |
Images of bodies and bodily practices abound in early America: from spirit possession, Fasting Days, and infanticide to running the gauntlet, going "naked as a sign," flogging, bundling, and scalping. All have implications for the study of gender, sexuality, masculinity, illness, the "body politic," spirituality, race, and slavery. The first book devoted solely to the history and theory of the body in early American cultural studies brings together authors representing diverse academic disciplines. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources-including itinerant ministers' journals, Revolutionary tracts and broadsides, advice manuals, and household inventories-they approach the theoretical analysis of the body in exciting new ways. A Centre of Wonders covers such varied topics as dance and movement among Native Americans; invading witch bodies in architecture and household spaces; rituals of baptism, conversion, and church discipline; eighteenth-century women's journaling; and the body as a rhetorical device in the language of diplomacy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-269) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 21, 2021) |
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Human body -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
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Human body -- Symbolic aspects -- United States -- History
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Human Body -- history
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Social Conditions -- history
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Culture -- history
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Religion -- history
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Sexuality
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
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Human body -- Social aspects
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Human body -- Symbolic aspects
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Manners and customs
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Körperbild
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Menselijk lichaam.
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Symboliek.
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Body -- United States.
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Human body -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
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Human body -- Symbolic aspects -- United States -- History.
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United States -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140130
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United States -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140527
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United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
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United States
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USA
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United States -- Social life and customs -- Colonial Period, 1600-1775.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Lindman, Janet Moore
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Tarter, Michele Lise, 1960-
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| LC no. |
00013068 |
| ISBN |
9781501717635 |
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1501717634 |
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