A centre of wonders : the body in early America /

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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 "...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lindman, Janet Moore, Tarter, Michele Lise, 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2001.
Temas:
Human body > Social aspects > United States > History.
Human body > Symbolic aspects > United States > History.
Corps humain > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire.
Corps humain > Aspect symbolique > États-Unis > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
Human body > Social aspects.
Human body > Symbolic aspects.
Manners and customs.
Menselijk lichaam.
Symboliek.
United States > History.
United States > Social life and customs.
États-Unis > Histoire.
États-Unis > Mœurs et coutumes.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "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.

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