TY  - GEN
T1  - A centre of wonders : the body in early America
A2  - Lindman, Janet Moore
A2  - Tarter, Michele Lise, 1960-
LA  - English
PP  - Ithaca, N.Y.
PB  - Cornell University Press
YR  - 2001
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn607727967
AB  - 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
OP  - 283
CN  - GT497.U6 C46 2001
SN  - 9781501717635
SN  - 1501717634
SN  - 0801487390
SN  - 9780801487392
SN  - 080143601X
SN  - 9780801436017
KW  - Human body : Social aspects : United States : History.
KW  - Human body : Symbolic aspects : United States : History.
KW  - United States : History.
KW  - United States : Social life and customs.
KW  - Human Body : history
KW  - Social Conditions : history
KW  - Culture : history
KW  - Religion : history
KW  - Sexuality
KW  - United States
KW  - Corps humain : Aspect social : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - Corps humain : Aspect symbolique : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - États-Unis : Mœurs et coutumes.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Public Policy : Cultural Policy.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : Cultural.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Popular Culture.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Gender Studies.
KW  - Human body : Social aspects
KW  - Human body : Symbolic aspects
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Körperbild
KW  - USA
KW  - Menselijk lichaam.
KW  - Symboliek.
KW  - Body : United States.
KW  - United States : Social life and customs : Colonial Period, 1600-1775.
KW  - History
ER  -