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24 - Anthropology and Development Studies
University of Edinburgh
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Article title
La « vie sociale » du sang (Penang, Malaisie)
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D - Journal article
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Volume number
56
Issue number
2011/1
First page of article
58
ISSN of journal
0760-5668
Year of publication
2011
Number of additional authors
0
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Interdisciplinary
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Proposed double-weighted
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Non-English
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English abstract
Blood is in many cultures a core symbol of kinship, ethnicity and religion, and it is also a scientific or medical object of investigation, and source of medical treatment. If the idea that scientific knowledge is of a different order from kinship knowledge seems paradigmatic of modernity, what kinds of work go into creating such boundaries and separations? Recent fieldwork in hospital settings in Malaysia as well as comparative material are drawn on to consider how blood travels between domains that are apparently ‘scientific’ or ‘biomedical’ and those that are more ‘social’ - such as kinship, ethnicity or religion.
