Blood and Kinship

Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-85745-749-3
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 683 g

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 and kinship moved in both parallel and divergent directions over the course of European history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnson, Christopher H.

Jussen, Bernhard

Sabean, David Warren

Teuscher, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Teuscher, Simon
Simon Teuscher is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Zurich. His publications include Lord's Rights and Peasant Stories. Writing and the Formation of Tradition in the Later Middle Ages (2012).

Sabean, David Warren
David Warren Sabean is Henry J. Bruman Professor of German History at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His publications include Kinship in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 (1998).

Jussen, Bernhard
Bernhard Jussen has been Professor of Medieval History at Goethe University Frankfurt since 2008. In 2007 he was awarded the Leibniz prize of the German Research Foundation. His publications include Spiritual Kinship as Social Practice (2000) and Atlas des Historischen Bildwissens (2009).

Johnson, Christopher H.
Christopher H. Johnson is Professor Emeritus of History at Wayne State University. A National Book Award nominee and Guggenheim Fellow, his publications includeThe Life and Death of Industrial Languedoc, 1700-1920: The Politics of De-Industrialization (1995).

Christopher H. Johnson is Professor Emeritus of History at Wayne State University. A National Book Award nominee and Guggenheim Fellow, his publications includeThe Life and Death of Industrial Languedoc, 1700-1920: The Politics of De-Industrialization (1995).