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Paperback Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Totem Rituals and the American Flag Book

ISBN: 0521626099

ISBN13: 9780521626095

Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Totem Rituals and the American Flag

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The authors argue that American patriotism is a civil religion organized around a sacred flag, whose followers engage in periodic blood sacrifice of their own children to unify the group. Using an anthropological theory, this groundbreaking book presents and explains the ritual sacrifices and regeneration that constitute American nationalism, the factors making particular elections or wars successful or unsuccessful rituals, the role of the mass media...

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