A Centre of Wonders
Subtitle: The Body in Early America
Contributors: Janet Moore Lindman (Editor); Michele Lise Tarter (Editor)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: July 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780801487392
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Cultural studies; United States - General; Social Science; History; Sociology; United States; History: American; USA; Social aspects; Social History; Body, Human; Anthropology - Cultural; Symbolic aspects
First sentence: Images of bodies and bodily practices abound in early America: from spirit possession, Fasting Days, "buggery," "monstrous births," and infanticide to running the gauntlet, going "naked as a sign," flogging, bundling, and scalping.