Christopher H. (Hrsg.) Johnson

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 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 div… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Jussen, Bernhard (Hrsg.) / Sabean, David Warren (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-85745-749-3
EAN: 9780857457493
Produktnummer: 16688967
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 368 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.4 cm 685 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 685

Über den Autor

Christopher H. Johnson is Professor Emeritus of History at Wayne State University. A National Book Award nominee and Guggenheim Fellow, his publications include The Life and Death of Industrial Languedoc, 1700-1920: The Politics of De-Industrialization (1995).