Blood and Kinship: Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present

By Christopher H. Johnson, Bernhard Jussen, Simon Teuscher, et al.

Book Overview

Attempt to follow the use of blood in mapping family and kinship relations in European culture from the ancient world to the present Explores how "Blood" has come and gone in European culture, just as kinship has constantly been reconfigured Questions the development of European understandings of how kinship and blood are connected

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782381775
• ISBN13: 9781782381778
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"