Blood and Kinship - Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Berghahn Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2013
First published:	2013
Editors:	Christopher H. Johnson • Bernhard Jussen • David Warren Sabean • Simon Teuscher
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	368
ISBN-13:	978-0-85745-749-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > History > European history > General
LSN:	0-85745-749-7
Barcode:	9780857457493

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