Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Totem Rituals and the American Flag by David Ingle, Carolyn Marvin

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

David Ingle, Carolyn Marvin

416 pages paperback 1999

3 editions

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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 p...

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