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Author Johnson, Christopher H., editor.

Title Blood and Kinship : Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (367 pages)
Contents Figures; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- Agnatio, Cognatio, Consanguinitas: Kinship and Blood in Ancient Rome; Chapter 2 -- The Bilineal Transmission of Blood in Ancient Rome; Chapter 3 -- Flesh and Blood in Medieval Language about Kinship; Chapter 4 -- Flesh and Blood in the Treatises on the Arbor Consanguinitatis (Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries); Chapter 5 -- Discourses of Blood and Kinship in Late Medieval and Early Modern Castile; Chapter 6 -- The Shed Blood of Christ: From Blood as Metaphor to Blood as Bearer of Identity
Chapter 7 -- Descent and Alliance: Cultural Meanings of Blood in the BaroqueChapter 8 -- Kinship, Blood, and the Emergence of the Racial Nation in the French Atlantic World, 1600-1789; Chapter 9 -- Class Dimensions of Blood, Kinship, and Race in Brittany, 1780-1880; Chapter 10 -- Nazi Anti-Semitism and the Question of Jewish Blood -- Chapter 11 -- Biosecuritization: The Quest for Synthetic Blood and the Taming of Kinship; Chapter 12 -- Articulating Blood and Kinship in Biomedical Contexts in Contemporary Britain and Malaysia
Chapter 13 -- From Blood to Genes? Rethinking Consanguinity in the Context of GeneticizationBibliography; Contributors; Index
Summary The word "blood" awakens ancient ideas, but we know little about its historical representation in Western cultures. Anthropologists have customarily studied how societies think about the bodily substances that unite them, and the contributors to this volume develop those questions in new directions. Taking a radically historical perspective that complements traditional cultural analyses, they demonstrate how blood and kinship have constantly been reconfigured in European culture. This volume challenges the idea that blood can be understood as a stable entity, and shows how concepts of blood
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-333) and index
Notes English
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Subject Kinship -- Europe -- History
Families -- Europe
Blood -- Symbolic aspects -- Europe
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Blood -- Symbolic aspects
Civilization
Families
Kinship
Blut
Familie
Symbolik
SUBJECT Europe -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045637
Subject Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Jussen, Bernhard
Sabean, David Warren
Teuscher, Simon
LC no. 2012013692
ISBN 9780857457509
0857457500
1299777384
9781299777385
0857457497
9780857457493