Blood and Kinship

Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present

Nonfiction, History, European General, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Anthropology
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Author: ISBN: 9780857457509
Publisher: Berghahn Books Publication: January 1, 2013
Imprint: Berghahn Books Language: English
Author:
ISBN: 9780857457509
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Publication: January 1, 2013
Imprint: Berghahn Books
Language: English

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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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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