Chapter 8 Kinship, Blood, and the Emergence of the Racial Nation in the French Atlantic World, 1600–1789

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures viii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1 Agnatio, Cognatio, Consanguinitas: Kinship and Blood in Ancient Rome 18
7. Chapter 2 The Bilineal Transmission of Blood in Ancient Rome 40
8. Chapter 3 Flesh and Blood in Medieval Language about Kinship 61
9. Chapter 4 Flesh and Blood in the Treatises on the Arbor Consanguinitatis (Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries) 83
10. Chapter 5 Discourses of Blood and Kinship in Late Medieval and Early Modern Castile 105
11. Chapter 6 The Shed Blood of Christ From Blood as Metaphor to Blood as Bearer of Identity 125
12. Chapter 7 Descent and Alliance: Cultural Meanings of Blood in the Baroque 144
13. Chapter 8 Kinship, Blood, and the Emergence of the Racial Nation in the French Atlantic World, 1600–1789 175
14. Chapter 9 Class Dimensions of Blood, Kinship, and Race in Brittany, 1780–1880 196
15. Chapter 10 Nazi Anti-Semitism and the Question of “Jewish Blood” 227
16. Chapter 11 Biosecuritization: The Quest for Synthetic Blood and the Taming of Kinship 244
17. Chapter 12 Articulating Blood and Kinship in Biomedical Contexts in Contemporary Britain and Malaysia 266
18. Chapter 13 From Blood to Genes? Rethinking Consanguinity in the Context of Geneticization 285
19. Bibliography 307
20. Contributors 334
21. Index 338