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

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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 d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Johnson, Christopher H. (Editor ), Jussen, Bernhard, Sabean, David Warren, Teuscher, Simon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
Temas:
Kinship > Europe > History.
Families > Europe.
Blood > Symbolic aspects > Europe.
Parenté > Europe > Histoire.
Familles > Europe.
Sang > Aspect symbolique > Europe.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Blood > Symbolic aspects
Civilization
Families
Kinship
Blut
Familie
Symbolik
Europe > Civilization.
Europe > Civilisation.
Europe
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (367 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-333) and index.
ISBN:9780857457509
0857457500
1299777384
9781299777385
0857457497
9780857457493

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