Blood and Kinship Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present

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Synopsis

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 and kinship moved in both parallel and divergent directions over the course of European history.

Book details

Author:
Christopher H. Johnson, Bernhard Jussen, David Warren Sabean and Simon Teuscher
ISBN:
9780857457509
Related ISBNs:
9781782381778, 9780857457493
Publisher:
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Pages:
368
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2021-05-22
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2015
Copyright by:
Johnson, Jussen, Sabean, Teuscher 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Social Studies