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: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780801436017
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Cultural studies; Sociology; History: American; United States - General; USA; Symbolic aspects; HIS036020; HIS036000; HIS; Social History; History; United States - Colonial Period; Body, Human; Social aspects; United States
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.