LEADER 03737nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910807344903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-85745-750-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780857457509 035 $a(CKB)2550000001108902 035 $a(EBL)1337708 035 $a(OCoLC)855505430 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000953101 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12369816 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000953101 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10910760 035 $a(PQKB)11353167 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1337708 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1337708 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10745053 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL508989 035 $a(DE-B1597)636524 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780857457509 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001108902 100 $a20120412d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aBlood & kinship $ematter for metaphor from ancient Rome to the present /$fedited by Christopher H. Johnson ... [et. al.] 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cBerghahn Books$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (367 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-85745-749-7 311 $a1-299-77738-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 303-333) and index. 327 $aContents; Figures; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Agnatio, Cognatio, Consanguinitas: Kinship and Blood in Ancient Rome; Chapter 2 - The Bilineal Transmission of Blood in Ancient Rome; Chapter 3 - Flesh and Blood in Medieval Language about Kinship; Chapter 4 - Flesh and Blood in the Treatises on the Arbor Consanguinitatis (Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries); Chapter 5 - Discourses of Blood and Kinship in Late Medieval and Early Modern Castile; Chapter 6 - The Shed Blood of Christ: From Blood as Metaphor to Blood as Bearer of Identity 327 $aChapter 7 - Descent and Alliance: Cultural Meanings of Blood in the BaroqueChapter 8 - Kinship, Blood, and the Emergence of the Racial Nation in the French Atlantic World, 1600-1789; Chapter 9 - Class Dimensions of Blood, Kinship, and Race in Brittany, 1780-1880; Chapter 10 - Nazi Anti-Semitism and the Question of ""Jewish Blood""; Chapter 11 - Biosecuritization: The Quest for Synthetic Blood and the Taming of Kinship; Chapter 12 - Articulating Blood and Kinship in Biomedical Contexts in Contemporary Britain and Malaysia 327 $aChapter 13 - From Blood to Genes? Rethinking Consanguinity in the Context of GeneticizationBibliography; Contributors; Index 330 $a 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 a 606 $aKinship$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aFamilies$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aBlood$xSymbolic aspects$zEurope 607 $aEurope$xCivilization 615 0$aKinship$xHistory. 615 0$aFamilies$xHistory. 615 0$aBlood$xSymbolic aspects 676 $a306.83094 676 $a306.83094 701 $aJohnson$b Christopher H$0253633 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807344903321 996 $aBlood & kinship$94043426 997 $aUNINA