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Blood Rites

Origins and History of the Passions of War

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What draws our species to war and makes us see it as a kind of sacred undertaking? Social critic Ehrenreich plumbs the mystery of the human attraction to violence, taking the reader on a journey from the grasslands of prehistoric Africa to the trenches of Verdun, from the spectacular human sacrifices of precolonial Central America to the carnage and holocaust of 20th century total war. She traces the evolution of war from prehistoric forms of socially-sanctioned violence to the mass religion which nationalism has become and shows the persistence of ancient fears in the most modern rituals and passions of war.

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Blood Rites, Barbara Ehrenreich, Susan Faludi

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1997
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Título
Blood Rites
Subtítulo
Origins and History of the Passions of War
Idioma
Inglés
Editorial
Virago Press
Publicado en
1997
Formato
Tapa dura
Páginas
292
ISBN10
1853818062
ISBN13
9781853818066
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Calificación
3,65 de 5
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What draws our species to war and makes us see it as a kind of sacred undertaking? Social critic Ehrenreich plumbs the mystery of the human attraction to violence, taking the reader on a journey from the grasslands of prehistoric Africa to the trenches of Verdun, from the spectacular human sacrifices of precolonial Central America to the carnage and holocaust of 20th century total war. She traces the evolution of war from prehistoric forms of socially-sanctioned violence to the mass religion which nationalism has become and shows the persistence of ancient fears in the most modern rituals and passions of war.