Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Totem Rituals and the American Flag.(Review) From: The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology | Date: February 1, 2001| Author: Vail, D. Angus | COPYRIGHT 2001 Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Assn. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

CAROLYN MARVIN and DAVID W. INGLE, Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Totem Rituals and the American Flag. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999, 398 p.

The summary on the jacket of this book states: "This compelling book argues that American patriotism is a civil religion of blood sacrifice, which periodically kills its children to keep the group together. The flag is the sacred object of this religion; its sacrificial imperative is a secret which the group kee...

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