Book contents
- Biopolitics and Animal Species in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century literature and culture
- Biopolitics and Animal Species in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Note on Citations
- Introduction Method and Field
- Part I Species, Lyric, and Onomatopoeia
- Part II How Did Darwin Invent the Symptom?
- Part III Societies of Blood
- Chapter 6 “Whose Blood Is It?”
- Chapter 7 The Totem and the Vampire
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Chapter 7 - The Totem and the Vampire
Species Identity in Anthropology, Literature, and Psychoanalysis
from Part III - Societies of Blood
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 January 2024
Book contents
- Biopolitics and Animal Species in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century literature and culture
- Biopolitics and Animal Species in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Note on Citations
- Introduction Method and Field
- Part I Species, Lyric, and Onomatopoeia
- Part II How Did Darwin Invent the Symptom?
- Part III Societies of Blood
- Chapter 6 “Whose Blood Is It?”
- Chapter 7 The Totem and the Vampire
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Summary
This chapter develops the topic of blood as a figure of species identity in readings of late Victorian anthropological writing on totemism and on blood brotherhood. The totem, according to its first theorist, is always a species, and totemism is a theory of species identity. Besides anthropology, the chapter discusses Kipling’s Jungle Book and Stoker’s Dracula. It closes with a return to Freud, to the species concept in psychoanalysis, and to species identity as constituted by diet.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024