Blood Will Out : Essays on Liquid Transfers and Flows.

Unique in focus and international in scope, this book brings together 10 essays about the material, metaphorical, and symbolic importance of blood. An interdisciplinary study that unites the work of noted historians and anthropologistsIncorporates insights from recent work in symbolism, kinship stud...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Carsten, Janet
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Hoboken : Wiley, 2013.
Series:Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Special issue.
Subjects:
Blood > History.
Blood > Social aspects.
Blood > Symbolic aspects.
Sang > Histoire.
Sang > Aspect social.
Sang > Aspect symbolique.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Blood
Blood > Social aspects
Blood > Symbolic aspects
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: blood will out; 1: Lifeblood, liquidity, and cash transfusions: beyond metaphor in the cultural study of finance; 2: The way blood flows: the sacrificial value of intravenous drip use in Northeast Brazil; 3: Medieval European conceptions of blood: truth and human integrity; 4: The blood of Abraham: Mormon redemptive physicality and American idioms of kinship; 5: Who is my stranger? Origins of the gift in wartime London, 1939-45.
  • 6: Bloodlines: blood types, identity, and association in twentieth-century America7: 'Searching for the truth': tracing the moral properties of blood in Malaysian clinical pathology labs; 8: The art of bleeding: memory, martyrdom, and portraits in blood; 9: Blood and the brain; Index.

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