Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War
Title | Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 1997 |
Authors | Ehrenreich, Barbara |
Number of Pages | 292 |
Publisher | Metropolitan Books |
City | New York |
Abstract | This monograph confronts the mystery of the human attraction to violence: What draws our species to war and even makes us see it as a kind of sacred undertaking? It takes us on an original journey from the elaborate human sacrifices of the ancient world to the carnage and holocaust of twentieth-century "total war." Sifting through the fragile records of prehistory, the author, Barbara Ehrenreich, discovers the wellspring of war in an unexpected place--not in a "killer instinct" unique to the males of our species but in the blood rites early humans performed to reenact their terrifying experience of predation by stronger carnivores. |
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