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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814422303321

Titolo

Blood will out : essays on liquid transfers and flows / / edited by Janet Carsten

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom, : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2013

ISBN

9781118656266

1118656261

9781118656235

1118656237

9781118656273

111865627X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Collana

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Special Issue Book Series

Altri autori (Persone)

CarstenJanet

Disciplina

306.4

Soggetti

Blood - Symbolic aspects

Blood - Social aspects

Blood - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Originally published as volume 19, special Issue May 2013 of The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute".

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: blood will out; 1: Lifeblood, liquidity, and cash transfusions: beyond metaphor in the cultural study of finance; 2: The way blood flows: the sacrificial value of intravenous drip use in Northeast Brazil; 3: Medieval European conceptions of blood: truth and human integrity; 4: The blood of Abraham: Mormon redemptive physicality and American idioms of kinship; 5: Who is my stranger? Origins of the gift in wartime London, 1939-45

6: Bloodlines: blood types, identity, and association in twentieth-century America7: 'Searching for the truth': tracing the moral properties of blood in Malaysian clinical pathology labs; 8: The art of bleeding: memory, martyrdom, and portraits in blood; 9: Blood and the brain; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Unique in focus and international in scope, this book brings together



10 essays about the material, metaphorical, and symbolic importance of blood. An interdisciplinary study that unites the work of noted historians and anthropologistsIncorporates insights from recent work in symbolism, kinship studies, medical anthropology, the anthropology of religion, the sociological study of finance, and textual analysisCovers topics such as Medieval European conceptions of blood; blood and the brain; blood and the cultural study of finance; and blood types, identity, and a