{"product_id":"a-centre-of-wonders-janet-moore-lindman-9780801436017","title":"A Centre of Wonders","description":"\u003cp\u003eImages 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Janet Moore Lindman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 080143601X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801436017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/06\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.60h x 6.44w x 0.95d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2001 pg. 63","brand":"Janet Moore Lindman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47425062928639,"sku":"9780801436017","price":145.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dfcbfc82-df53-43b6-bbcc-02b905cb8e15.jpg?v=1761536753","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-centre-of-wonders-janet-moore-lindman-9780801436017","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}