by Bernhard Jussen, David Warren Sabean, Simon Teuscher, Christopher H. Johnson
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 cha
ISBN: 9781836956228
599 pages
Published: 2013-01-01
Publisher: Berghahn Books