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Blood Will Out: Essays on Liquid Transfers and Flows
Janet Carsten (Ed.)
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Description for Blood Will Out: Essays on Liquid Transfers and Flows
Paperback. Unique in focus and international in scope, this book brings together 10 essays about the material, metaphorical, and symbolic importance of blood. Editor(s): Carsten, Janet. Series: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Special Issue Book Series. Num Pages: 198 pages, colour illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 172 x 11. Weight in Grams: 402.
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
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
Series
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Special Issue Book Series
Number of Pages
198
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781118656280
SKU
V9781118656280
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-12
About Janet Carsten (Ed.)
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, ... Read more
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