دانلود کتاب A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early America

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Contents Acknowledgments "The earthly frame, a minute fabrick, a Centre of Wonders": Witchcraft, Bodily Affliction, and Domestic Space in Seventeenth-Century New England Food, Assimilation, and the Malleability of the Human Body in Early Virginia "Civilized" Bodies and the "Savage" Environment of Early New Plymouth The Body Politic and the Body Somatic Murderous Uncleanness "Clean of blood, without stain or mixture" A "Doctrine of Signatures" Nursing Fathers and Brides of Christ Quaking in the Light "Antic Deportments and Indian Postures" The Body Baptist Hannah Duston's Bodies Body Language Emancipation and the Em-bodiment of "Race" The Problematics of Absence Selected Bibliography Contributors Index