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Christopher H. Johnson, Bernhard Jussen, David Warren Sabean, Simon Teuscher - Blood and Kinship, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

Blood and Kinship

Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present

Av Christopher H. Johnson, Bernhard Jussen, David Warren Sabean, Simon Teuscher

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Beskrivning
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.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2015-10-01
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 494 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 368
  • Förlag: Berghahn Books
  • ISBN: 9781782381778
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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).

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“Blood & Kinship is an important contribution to the anthropology of kinship, by providing significant analyses of how kinship in Europe has been understood distinctly through time, incorporating blood as metaphor in different ways.” · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute“The collection of essays is a welcome contribution not only to the so-called New Kinship Studies, but also to the history of the substance of blood.” · H-Soz-Kult“This is a book of astonishing quality, comprising a wealth of outstanding studies that underline the various shifts and mutations that took place mostly in the late medieval and late modern periods. It is true that issues of gender could play a more prevalent role and that discourses and semantic issues are largely privileged over visual matters, cultural practices, and material culture, but rather than a critique this is an invitation for further investigations on those aspects. In any case, those limitations certainly do not make this book less inspiring and pioneering regarding the history of the blood metaphor and its shifting meanings.” · Contributions to the History of Concepts“Has family and kinship always met the same thing throughout our history? [This volume] is a collection of scholarly essays on history and anthropology looking at the foundations of western culture and history. Exploring the concept of blood and daring to take a very different perspective on the ideas of blood, many academic and scholarly minds come together to bring many fresh perspectives on these cultures. Tracing thousands of years of history and culture and offering an interesting twist of ideas throughout, Blood & Kinshipis an excellent and highly recommended addition to history and anthropology community and college library collections.” · Library Bookwatch“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

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