Screen LibraryA centre of wonders：the body in early America
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| Group Author: | ; |
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Cornell University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Ithaca, N.Y. |
| Publication Dates: | 2001. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | vii, 283 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0801487390 (pbk. : alk. paper) 080143601X (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | C912 |
| CLC: | C912.4-09(712) |
| Call Number: | C912.4-097.12/C397 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-269) and index. "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 signat |