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 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.
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