| Description |
vii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Human body -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
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Human body -- Symbolic aspects -- United States -- History.
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United States -- History.
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United States -- Social life and customs.
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| Added Author |
Lindman, Janet Moore.
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Tarter, Michele Lise, 1960-
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| ISBN |
0801487390 paperback alkaline paper |
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080143601X cloth alkaline paper |
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