CiNii Books - Blood & kinship : matter for metaphor from ancient Rome to the present

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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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

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