| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Book Review

A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early America. Ed. by Janet Moore Lindman and Michele Lise Tarter. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001. x, 283 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8014-3601-X. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8014-8739-0.)

A Centre of Wonders provides early Americanists with an illuminating introduction to this burgeoning interdisciplinary field. While most historians of the body concentrate on gender, essays here also engage questions of conquest, strategies of colonization, and constructions of race. In an excellent and refreshingly brief introduction, Janet Moore Lindman and Michele Lise Tarter provide a crash course in the analytical paradigms grounding the history of the body. Following the trajectory established by Anthony Pagden, among others, they point out that this transitional period saw not only changes in scientific knowledge and religious theology but also a new, concrete knowledge of other worlds and other peoples. The relationship between the new, particular knowledges and the construction of the body 'universal' frames explorations of the social and political decisions impacting the bodies of Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans in North America. . . .

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