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Article: A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early America. .(Book Review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- June 22, 2003
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A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early America. Edited by Janet Moore Lindman and Michele Lise Tarter (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001. ix plus 283pp.).
If, as historian Nancy Shoemaker remarks, the use of body metaphors to explain abstract concepts is "probably a universal cognitive practice, no matter the culture," then it is quite remarkable that so few scholars engaged in early American studies have chosen to analyze them until now. The publication of the inspired and inspiring new collection of essays in which Shoemaker makes that assertion, A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early America, edited by Janet Moore Lindman and Michele Lise Tarter, marks ...