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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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