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Introduction: Blood Donation, Bioeconomy, Culture
- J. Copeman
- Sociology
- 1 June 2009
This special issue of Body & Society explores critical issues arising from enactments of blood donation and transfusion in different parts of the world.1 With articles focusing on Brazil, China,… Expand
Veinglory: Exploring Processes of Blood Transfer Between Persons
- J. Copeman
- Political Science
- 1 September 2005
L'auteur etudie ici les operations liees au don du sang et a sa « gestion » dans une perspective anthropologique. Il affirme que cette gestion ne se limite pas aux operations realisees par les… Expand
Gathering Points: Blood Donation and the Scenography of `National Integration' in India
- J. Copeman
- Sociology
- 1 June 2009
This article explores nationalist interpretations of blood donation activity, examining how some Indians read integrative messages into the practical procedures through which blood is donated and… Expand
Guru logics*
- J. Copeman, Aya Ikegame
- HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
- 1 April 2012
This commentary highlights the diversity of thematics and conceptual schema generated by guru-ship, and its capacity—as a set of principles as much as specific persons—to participate in, and move… Expand
"Blood Will Have Blood": A Study in Indian Political Ritual
- J. Copeman
- Sociology
- 1 December 2004
This article considers the significance of the incorporation of blood donation as a widespread feature of commemorative polit ical rituals in India. It places the rituals in the context of the… Expand
The Guru in South Asia
- J. Copeman, Aya Ikegame
- Political Science
- 21 August 2012
This book provides a set of fresh and compelling interdisciplinary approaches to the enduring phenomenon of the guru in South Asia. Moving across different gurus and kinds of gurus, and between past… Expand
The Gift and Its Forms of Life in Contemporary India
- J. Copeman
- Sociology
- 1 September 2011
Thispaperseekstodocumentandinterpretsomeofthemanylifeformsofthegift ofdanincontemporaryIndia.Itattemptstobebothsummativeinreflectingonthe recent extremely productive literature on dan and… Expand
Violence, non‐violence, and blood donation in India
- J. Copeman
- Political Science
- 1 June 2008
This article explores the relationship between medical blood donation and concepts and enactments of violence and non-violence in India. The focus is on those north Indian devotional orders in the… Expand