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Blood will out : essays on liquid transfers and flows / edited by Janet Carsten.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Special Issue Book Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blood--Symbolic aspects.
- Blood.
- Blood--Social aspects.
- Blood--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (199 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 anthropologistsIncorporates insights from recent work in symbolism, kinship studies, medical anthropology, the anthropology of religion, the sociological study of finance, and textual analysisCovers topics such as Medieval European conceptions of blood; blood and the brain; blood and the cultural study of finance; and blood types, identity, and a
- Contents:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: blood will out; 1: Lifeblood, liquidity, and cash transfusions: beyond metaphor in the cultural study of finance; 2: The way blood flows: the sacrificial value of intravenous drip use in Northeast Brazil; 3: Medieval European conceptions of blood: truth and human integrity; 4: The blood of Abraham: Mormon redemptive physicality and American idioms of kinship; 5: Who is my stranger? Origins of the gift in wartime London, 1939-45
- 6: Bloodlines: blood types, identity, and association in twentieth-century America7: 'Searching for the truth': tracing the moral properties of blood in Malaysian clinical pathology labs; 8: The art of bleeding: memory, martyrdom, and portraits in blood; 9: Blood and the brain; Index
- Notes:
- "Originally published as volume 19, special Issue May 2013 of The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute".
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781118656266
- 1118656261
- 9781118656235
- 1118656237
- 9781118656273
- 111865627X
- OCLC:
- 854977484
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