Blood and kinship : matter for metaphor from ancient Rome to the present /: matter for metaphor from ancient Rome to the present. (2015)
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- Title:
- Blood and kinship : matter for metaphor from ancient Rome to the present /: matter for metaphor from ancient Rome to the present. (2015)
- Main Title:
- Blood and kinship : matter for metaphor from ancient Rome to the present
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Christopher H. Johnson, Bernhard Jussen, David Warren Sabean, Simon Teuscher.
- Editors:
- Johnson, Christopher H
Jussen, Bernhard
Sabean, David Warren
Teuscher, Simon - Contents:
- 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; Gérard 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
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- New York : Berghahn Books
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 306.83094
Kinship -- Europe -- History
Families -- Europe -- History
Blood -- Symbolic aspects -- Europe
Europe -- Civilization - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9780857457509
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781782381778
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- Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.152221
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