Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Totem Rituals and the American Flag From: The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology | Date: February 1, 2001| Author: D Angus Vail | Copyright Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, c/o Concordia University Department of Sociology and Anthropology Feb 2001. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

CAROLYN MARVIN and DAVID W INGLE, Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Totem Rituals and the American Flag. Cambridge, UK.: 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 keeps from itself t...

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