A Centre of Wonders

The Body in Early America

Bibliographic Data

ID7530735
EditorsJanet Moore Lindman (corresponding author), Michele Lise Tarter
Year2001
Pages296
Publication date2001-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byA Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early America, Julia Ott, 2003
VenueCentre of Wonders (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCornell University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7591/9781501717635
OpenAlexW4242111165
Open LibraryOL33703307M
ISBN9781501717635
LanguageEN
Citations received27

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

Early Modern Women Writers · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Latin American history and culture · Human body · Social aspects · Social life and customs · Symbolic aspects · united states

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