Blood and Kinship: Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present
Edited by David Warren Sabean (NHC Fellow, 2008–09), Christopher H. Johnson, Bernhard Jussen, and 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 … Continued