Blood Will Out Essays on Liquid Transfers and Flows

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  • Paperback
  • 9781118656280
  • 18 oktober 2013
  • 198 pagina's
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Unique in focus and international in scope, this book brings together 10 essays about the material, metaphorical, and symbolic importance of blood.

What is blood? The many meanings of blood vividly attest to its polyvalent qualities and its unusual capacity for accruing layers of symbolic resonance. Life and death; nurturance and violence; connection and exclusion; kinship and sacrifice - the associations multiply, flowing between domains in a quite uncontainable manner. Whether expressed in the rhetoric of familial, racial, ethnic, or national exclusion, or in calls to violent action, idioms of blood often have exceptional emotional force. Blood has the capacity to flow in many directions: it is literally present in spaces of blood donation, and metaphorically central to sanguinary idioms in depictions of the economy. These essays illuminate through close anthropological and historical scrutiny blood's special qualities as bodily substance, material, and metaphor. They suggest many reasons for elucidating a theory of blood.



Unique in focus and international in scope, this book brings together 10 essays about the material, metaphorical, and symbolic importance of blood.

  • An interdisciplinary study that unites the work of noted historians and anthropologists
  • Incorporates insights from recent work in symbolism, kinship studies, medical anthropology, the anthropology of religion, the sociological study of finance, and textual analysis
  • Covers topics such as Medieval European conceptions of blood; blood and the brain; blood and the cultural study of finance; and blood types, identity, and association in twentieth-century America

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J Carsten
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Janet Carsten
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Wiley-Blackwell

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