Beschreibung
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.
Autorenportrait
Christopher H. Johnsonis Professor Emeritus of History at Wayne State University. A National Book Award nominee and Guggenheim Fellow, his publications includeThe Life and Death of Industrial Languedoc, 1700-1920: The Politics of De-Industrialization (1995).
Inhalt
Acknowledgments Preface List of Illustrations and Tables
IntroductionDavid Warren Sabeanand Simon Teuscher
Chapter 1. Agnatio, Cognatio, Consanguinitas: Kinship and Blood in Ancient Rome Ann-Cathrin Harders
Chapter 2.The Bilineal Transmission of Blood in Ancient RomePhilippe Moreau
Chapter 3. Flesh and Blood in Medieval Language about KinshipAnita Guerreau-Jalabert
Chapter 4. Flesh and Blood in the Treatises on the Arbor Consanguinitatis (Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries)Simon Teuscher
Chapter 5. Discourses of Blood and Kinship in Late Medieval and Early Modern CastileTeofilo F. Ruiz
Chapter 6.The Shed Blood of Christ. From Blood as Metaphor to Blood as Bearer of IdentityGérard Delille
Chapter 7.Descent and Alliance: Cultural Meanings of Blood in the BaroqueDavid Warren Sabean
Chapter 8.Kinship, Blood, and the Emergence of the Racial Nation in the French Atlantic World, 16001789Guillaume Aubert
Chapter 9. Class Dimensions of Blood, Kinship, and Race in Brittany, 17801880Christopher H. Johnson
Chapter 10.Nazi Anti-Semitism and the Question of Jewish BloodCornelia Essner
Chapter 11.Biosecuritization: The Quest for Synthetic Blood and the Taming of KinshipKath Weston
Chapter 12.Articulating Blood and Kinship in Biomedical Contexts in Contemporary Britain and MalaysiaJanet Carsten
Chapter 13.From Blood to Genes? Rethinking Consanguinity in the Context of GeneticizationSarah Franklin
Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index
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