Blood Will Out
Essays on Liquid Transfers and Flows
Will be published approx. on 18. October 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
198 pages
978-1-118-65628-0 (ISBN)
Description
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
More details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-118-65628-0 (9781118656280)
Schweitzer Classification
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E-Book
07/2013
Wiley-Blackwell
€21.99
Available for download
E-Book
07/2013
Wiley-Blackwell
€21.99
Available for download
Person
Janet Carsten is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the anthropology of kinship. She is the author of After Kinship (2004) and The Heat of the Hearth: The Process of Kinship in a Malay Fishing Community (1997). She is the editor of Ghosts of Memory: Essays on Remembrance and Relatedness (Blackwell, 2007) and Cultures of Relatedness: New Approaches to the Study of Kinship (2000).
Content
Notes on contributors vii
Acknowledgements ix
Janet Carsten Introduction: blood will out 1
1 Kath Weston Lifeblood, liquidity, and cash transfusions: beyond metaphor in the cultural study of finance 24
2 Maya Mayblin The way blood flows: the sacrificial value of intravenous drip use in Northeast Brazil 42
3 Bettina Bildhauer Medieval European conceptions of blood: truth and human integrity 56
4 Fenella Cannell The blood of Abraham: Mormon redemptive physicality and American idioms of kinship 76
5 Nicholas Whitfield Who is my stranger? Origins of the gift in wartime London, 1939-45 94
6 Susan E. Lederer Bloodlines: blood types, identity, and association in twentieth-century America 117
7 Janet Carsten 'Searching for the truth': tracing the moral properties of blood in Malaysian clinical pathology labs 129
8 Jacob Copeman The art of bleeding: memory, martyrdom, and portraits in blood 147
9 Emily Martin Blood and the brain 170
Index 183