Blood and kinship : matter for metaphor from ancient Rome to the present /: matter for metaphor from ancient Rome to the present. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• 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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