A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early AmericaJanet Moore Lindman, Michele Lise Tarter Cornell University Press, 2001 - 283 síður 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. |
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Witchcraft Bodily Affliction and Domestic Space in SeventeenthCentury New England | 13 |
Food Assimilation and the Malleability of the Human Body in Early Virginia | 29 |
Civilized Bodies and the Savage Environment of Early New Plymouth | 43 |
The Body Politic and the Body Somatic | 61 |
DEMARCATIONS OF THE BODY | 75 |
Murderous Uncleanness | 77 |
Clean of blood without stain or mixture | 95 |
A Doctrine of Signatures | 109 |
Antic Deportments and Indian Postures | 163 |
The Body Baptist | 177 |
BODIES IN DISCOURSE | 191 |
Hannah Dustons Bodies | 193 |
Body Language | 211 |
Emancipation and the Embodiment of Race | 223 |
The Problematics of Absence | 237 |
Selected Bibliography | 255 |
BODIES IN PERFORMANCE | 127 |
Nursing Fathers and Brides of Christ | 129 |
Quaking in the Light | 145 |
Contributors | 271 |
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