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- ISBN 9780857457493
- Weight: 662g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 2013
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Blood awakens associations with ancient ideas. But we know very little about the historical representations of blood in Western cultures. The contributors attempt to follow the use of blood in mapping family and kinship relations in European culture from the ancient world to the present. The project is "reflexive" in that it takes as its point of departure the questions that anthropologists are now asking about how different societies think about the substances that connect people, that are understood to produce either "kinship" - where that is still considered to be a relevant category - or "relatedness." What has been the development of European understandings of how kinship and blood are connected? "Blood" has come and gone in European culture, just as kinship has constantly been reconfigured. Both have been moving, sometimes in parallel and sometimes in divergent directions. And both have taken on quite different meanings over time.
Christopher H. Johnson is Professor Emeritus of History at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. A National Book Award nominee and Guggenheim Fellow, his publications include Utopian Communism in France: Cabet and the Icarians, 1839-1851 (1974); and The Life and Death of Industrial Languedoc, 1700-1920: The Politics of De-Industrialization (1995). 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: Der Name der Witwe (2000), Spiritual Kinship as Social Practice (2000), Atlas des Historischen Bildwissens (2009). David Warren Sabean is Henry J. Bruman Professor of German History at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His publications include Property, Production, and Family in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 (1990); Kinship in Neckarhausen, 1700-1870 (1998). Simon Teuscher is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Zurich. His publications include Bekannte-Verwandte-Klienten. Soziabilitat und Politik in Bern um 1500 (1998) and Lord's Rights and Peasant Stories. Writing and the Formation of Tradition in the Later Middle Ages (2012).
