Blood rites : origins and history of the passions of war /
What draws our species to war? What makes us see violence as a kind of sacred duty, or a ritual that boys must undergo to "become" men? Newly reissued in paperback, Blood Rites takes readers on an original journey from the elaborate human sacrifices of the ancient world to the carnage and...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Twelve,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First Twelve edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The Ecstasy of War
- 2. Sacred Meat
- 3. The True Mark of the Beast
- 4. The First Blood Sacrifice
- 5. The Rebellion Against the Beast
- 6. When the Predator Had a Woman's Face
- 7. "A Rough Male Sport"
- 8. Fearful Symmetries
- 9. The Warrior Elite
- 10. The Sacralization of War
- 11. Guns and the Democratization of Glory
- 12. An Imagined Bestiary
- 13. Three Cases of War Worship
- 14. The Further Evolution of War in the Twentieth Century.