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In Hot Water: Public Bathing in Native America, Iceland, Finland, and Japan

In Hot Water: Public Bathing in Native America, Iceland, Finland, and Japan

I’ve been in a lot of hot water. I have been beaten by sharp leaves and acorn-laced oak branches in Kyrgyzstan, abused by a drunk masseuse in a Cypriot hammam, enjoyed the toxic pots of geothermal effluvia in Iceland, shattered lake ice in Finland for a cold dip, and experienced the shame and freedom of semi-public nudity in Japan. Growing up in Idaho we would get a used dome tent from the charity shop, slice a circle out of its {+}