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10%OFFJanet Moore Lindman (Ed.) - A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early America - 9780801487392 - V9780801487392
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A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early America

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Description for A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early America Paperback. Editor(s): Lindman, Janet Moore; Tarter, Michele Lise. Num Pages: 296 pages, 8. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 500.

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 ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Cornell University Press New York
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801487392
SKU
V9780801487392
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Janet Moore Lindman (Ed.)
Janet Moore Lindman is Associate Professor of History at Rowan University. Michele Lise Tarter is Assistant Professor of English at The College of New Jersey.

Reviews for A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early America
A Centre of Wonders provides early Americanists with an illuminating introduction to this burgeoning interdisciplinary field. While most historians of the body concentrate on gender, essays here also engage questions of conquest, strategies of colonization, and constructions of race In an excellent and refreshingly brief introduction, Lindman and Tarter provide a crash course in the analytical paradigms grounding the history ... Read more

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