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 divergent dire… Mehr

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Produktdetails

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

ISBN: 978-0-85745-750-9
EAN: 9780857457509
Produktnummer: 20453817
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 368 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 4'391 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

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).