Christopher H. Johnson is Professor Emeritus of History at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. A National Book Award nominee and Guggenheim Fellow, his publications include Utopian Communism in France: Cabet and the Icarians, 1839-1851 (1974); and The Life and Death of Industrial Languedoc, 1700-1920: The Politics of De-Industrialization (1995). Bernhard Jussen has been Professor of Medieval History at Goethe University Frankfurt since 2008. In 2007 he was awarded the Leibniz prize of the German Research Foundation. His publications include: Der Name der Witwe (2000), Spiritual Kinship as Social Practice (2000), Atlas des Historischen Bildwissens (2009). David Warren Sabean is Henry J. Bruman Professor of German History at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His publications include Property, Production, and Family in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 (1990); Kinship in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 (1998). Simon Teuscher is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Zurich. His publications include Bekannte-Verwandte-Klienten. Soziabilitat und Politik in Bern um 1500 (1998) and Lord's Rights and Peasant Stories. Writing and the Formation of Tradition in the Later Middle Ages (2012).

"This is an excellent book, a sophisticated collection of scholarship that raises questions important not only to historians but also to anthropologists and other social scientists. I loved reading it - " * Jared Poley, Georgia State University

• Acknowledgments Preface List of Illustrations and Tables Introduction David Warren Sabean and 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 Rome Philippe Moreau Chapter 3. Flesh and Blood in Medieval Language about Kinship Anita 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 Castile Teofilo F. Ruiz Chapter 6. The Shed Blood of Christ. From Blood as Metaphor to Blood as Bearer of Identity Gerard Delille Chapter 7. Descent and Alliance: Cultural Meanings of Blood in the Baroque David Warren Sabean Chapter 8. Kinship, Blood, and the Emergence of the Racial Nation in the French Atlantic World, 1600 - 1789 Guillaume Aubert Chapter 9. Class Dimensions of Blood, Kinship, and Race in Brittany, 1780 - 1880 Christopher H. Johnson Chapter 10. Nazi Anti-Semitism and the Question of "Jewish Blood" Cornelia Essner Chapter 11. Biosecuritization: The Quest for Synthetic Blood and the Taming of Kinship Kath Weston Chapter 12. Articulating Blood and Kinship in Biomedical Contexts in Contemporary Britain and Malaysia Janet Carsten Chapter 13. From Blood to Genes? Rethinking Consanguinity in the Context of Geneticization Sarah Franklin Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index

Christopher H. Johnson is Professor Emeritus of History at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. A National Book Award nominee and Guggenheim Fellow, his publications include Utopian Communism in France: Cabet and the Icarians, 1839-1851 (1974); and The Life and Death of Industrial Languedoc, 1700-1920: The Politics of De-Industrialization (1995). Bernhard Jussen has been Professor of Medieval History at Goethe University Frankfurt since 2008. In 2007 he was awarded the Leibniz prize of the German Research Foundation. His publications include: Der Name der Witwe (2000), Spiritual Kinship as Social Practice (2000), Atlas des Historischen Bildwissens (2009). David Warren Sabean is Henry J. Bruman Professor of German History at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His publications include Property, Production, and Family in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 (1990); Kinship in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 (1998). Simon Teuscher is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Zurich. His publications include Bekannte-Verwandte-Klienten. Soziabilitat und Politik in Bern um 1500 (1998) and Lord's Rights and Peasant Stories. Writing and the Formation of Tradition in the Later Middle Ages (2012).

"This is an excellent book, a sophisticated collection of scholarship that raises questions important not only to historians but also to anthropologists and other social scientists. I loved reading it - " * Jared Poley, Georgia State University

• Acknowledgments Preface List of Illustrations and Tables Introduction David Warren Sabean and 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 Rome Philippe Moreau Chapter 3. Flesh and Blood in Medieval Language about Kinship Anita 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 Castile Teofilo F. Ruiz Chapter 6. The Shed Blood of Christ. From Blood as Metaphor to Blood as Bearer of Identity Gerard Delille Chapter 7. Descent and Alliance: Cultural Meanings of Blood in the Baroque David Warren Sabean Chapter 8. Kinship, Blood, and the Emergence of the Racial Nation in the French Atlantic World, 1600 - 1789 Guillaume Aubert Chapter 9. Class Dimensions of Blood, Kinship, and Race in Brittany, 1780 - 1880 Christopher H. Johnson Chapter 10. Nazi Anti-Semitism and the Question of "Jewish Blood" Cornelia Essner Chapter 11. Biosecuritization: The Quest for Synthetic Blood and the Taming of Kinship Kath Weston Chapter 12. Articulating Blood and Kinship in Biomedical Contexts in Contemporary Britain and Malaysia Janet Carsten Chapter 13. From Blood to Genes? Rethinking Consanguinity in the Context of Geneticization Sarah Franklin Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index

Christopher H. Johnson is Professor Emeritus of History at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. A National Book Award nominee and Guggenheim Fellow, his publications include Utopian Communism in France: Cabet and the Icarians, 1839-1851 (1974); and The Life and Death of Industrial Languedoc, 1700-1920: The Politics of De-Industrialization (1995). Bernhard Jussen has been Professor of Medieval History at Goethe University Frankfurt since 2008. In 2007 he was awarded the Leibniz prize of the German Research Foundation. His publications include: Der Name der Witwe (2000), Spiritual Kinship as Social Practice (2000), Atlas des Historischen Bildwissens (2009). David Warren Sabean is Henry J. Bruman Professor of German History at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His publications include Property, Production, and Family in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 (1990); Kinship in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 (1998). Simon Teuscher is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Zurich. His publications include Bekannte-Verwandte-Klienten. Soziabilitat und Politik in Bern um 1500 (1998) and Lord's Rights and Peasant Stories. Writing and the Formation of Tradition in the Later Middle Ages (2012).

"This is an excellent book, a sophisticated collection of scholarship that raises questions important not only to historians but also to anthropologists and other social scientists. I loved reading it - " * Jared Poley, Georgia State University

• Acknowledgments Preface List of Illustrations and Tables Introduction David Warren Sabean and 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 Rome Philippe Moreau Chapter 3. Flesh and Blood in Medieval Language about Kinship Anita 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 Castile Teofilo F. Ruiz Chapter 6. The Shed Blood of Christ. From Blood as Metaphor to Blood as Bearer of Identity Gerard Delille Chapter 7. Descent and Alliance: Cultural Meanings of Blood in the Baroque David Warren Sabean Chapter 8. Kinship, Blood, and the Emergence of the Racial Nation in the French Atlantic World, 1600 - 1789 Guillaume Aubert Chapter 9. Class Dimensions of Blood, Kinship, and Race in Brittany, 1780 - 1880 Christopher H. Johnson Chapter 10. Nazi Anti-Semitism and the Question of "Jewish Blood" Cornelia Essner Chapter 11. Biosecuritization: The Quest for Synthetic Blood and the Taming of Kinship Kath Weston Chapter 12. Articulating Blood and Kinship in Biomedical Contexts in Contemporary Britain and Malaysia Janet Carsten Chapter 13. From Blood to Genes? Rethinking Consanguinity in the Context of Geneticization Sarah Franklin Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index