Hematologies: The Political Life of Blood in India Contributor(s): Copeman, Jacob (Author), Banerjee, Dwaipayan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1501745093 ISBN-13: 9781501745096 Publisher: Cornell University Press OUR PRICE: $128.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Medical | Hematology - History | Asia - India & South Asia - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
Dewey: 306.4 |
LCCN: 2019020871 |
Physical Information: 0.93" H x 7.14" W x 9.41" (1.10 lbs) 288 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Indian |
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Publisher Description: In this ground-breaking account of the political economy and cultural meaning of blood in contemporary India, Jacob Copeman and Dwaipayan Banerjee examine how the giving and receiving of blood has shaped social and political life. Hematologies traces how the substance congeals political ideologies, biomedical rationalities, and activist practices. Using examples from anti-colonial appeals to blood sacrifice as a political philosophy to contemporary portraits of political leaders drawn with blood, from the use of the substance by Bhopali children as a material of activism to biomedical anxieties and aporias about the excess and lack of donation, Hematologies broaches how political life in India has been shaped through the use of blood and through contestations about blood. As such, the authors offer new entryways into thinking about politics and economy through a bloodscape of difference: different sovereignties; different proportionalities; and different temporalities. These entryways allow the authors to explore the relation between blood's utopic flows and political clottings as it moves through time and space, conjuring new kinds of social collectivities while reanimating older forms, and always in a reflexive relation to norms that guide its proper flow. |
Contributor Bio(s): Copeman, Jacob: - Jacob Copeman is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of Veins of Devotion.Banerjee, Dwaipayan: - Dwaipayan Banerjee is an assistant professor in the program on Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. He earned his doctorate in cultural anthropology at NYU and has been a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Dartmouth College. His research interests include anthropology and history of science, technology and medicine in South Asia, experimental writing and ethnographic film. |