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by Barbara Ehrenreich


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A New York Times Notable BookAn ALA Notable Book
"Original and illuminating." --The Washington Post
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 holocaust of twentieth-century "total war."
Ehrenreich sifts deftly through the fragile records of prehistory and discovers the wellspring of war in an unexpected place -- not in a "killer instinct" unique to the males of our species, but in the blood rites early humans performed to reenact their terrifying experiences of predation by stronger carnivores.
Brilliant in conception and rich in scope, Blood Rites is a monumental work that continues to transform our understanding of the greatest single threat to human life.

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  • Title Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War
  • Author Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Twelve
  • Date 2020-01-07
  • ISBN 9781455543700 / 1455543705
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.2 x 1 in (20.32 x 13.21 x 2.54 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects War, War - Psychological aspects
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2019904651
  • Dewey Decimal Code 355.02

About the author

Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-2022) was a bestselling author and political activist, whose more than a dozen books include Natural Causes, Living with a Wild God, the award winning essay collection Had I Known, and Nickel and Dimed, which the New York Times described as "a classic in social justice literature." An award-winning journalist, she frequently contributed to Harper's, The Nation, The New York Times, and TIME magazine. Ehrenreich was born in Butte, Montana, when it was still a bustling mining town. She studied physics at Reed College and earned a Ph.D. in cell biology from Rockefeller University. Rather than going into laboratory work, she got involved in activism, and soon devoted herself to writing her innovative journalism.
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