Blood and Kinship : : Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present / / ed. by Christopher H. Johnson, Bernhard Jussen, David Warren Sabean, Simon Teuscher.
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....
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Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
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