Blood and Kinship: Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present

by Christopher H. Johnson, Bernhard Jussen, Simon Teuscher, et al.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782381775
• ISBN13: 9781782381778
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"