Blood and nation
Subtitle: the European aesthetics of race
By: Uli Linke.
Series: Contemporary ethnography
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
Subjects: Blood -- Social aspects -- Europe; Blood -- Symbolic aspects -- Europe; Body, Human -- Social aspects -- Europe; Body, Human -- Symbolic aspects -- Europe; Sex role -- Europe; Antisemitism -- Europe; Europe -- Ethnic relations; Europe -- Race relations
Description: Throughout its history, Europe has been marked by xenophobia and intolerance that has often led to violent intergroup conflicts. Uli Linke explores how extensions of blood imagery not only gave expression to this xenophobia but helped to shape European ideas about race and difference - ideas that have led and continue to lead to violence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-314) and index.