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.
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