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Title A centre of wonders : the body in early America / edited by Janet Moore Lindman and Michele Lise Tarter.

Publication Info. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2001.

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 283 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium monochrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-269) and index.
Contents "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.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details 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
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject Human body -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
Human body -- Social aspects.
United States.
History.
Human body -- Symbolic aspects -- United States -- History.
Human body -- Symbolic aspects.
United States -- History.
United States -- Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Added Author Lindman, Janet Moore.
Tarter, Michele Lise, 1960-
Other Form: Print version: Centre of wonders. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2001 (DLC) 00013068 (OCoLC)45638908
ISBN 0801487390 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780801487392 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
080143601X (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780801436017 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9781501717635
1501717634