Barbara Ehrenreich is the bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed, Bait and Switch, Bright-sided, This Land Is Their Land, and Dancing in the Streets, among others. A frequent contributor to Harper's and The Nation, she has also been a columnist at The New York Times and Time magazine. She is the winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize for Current Interest and ALA Notable Books for Nonfiction.
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. She lives and works in Florida.
"Ehrenreich has outdone herself in breaking with conventional
history, and the result is thrilling in that seeing-the-world-anew
way." --Susan Faludi, The Nation"Splendid . . . .A fascinating
perspective on our staunch devotion to mass, mutual slaughter.
Blood Rites is that rare animal, a nonfiction page-turner."
--Newsweek
Ehrenreich has outdone herself in breaking with conventional
history, and the result is thrilling in that seeing-the-world-anew
way. "Susan Faludi, The Nation" Splendid . . . .A fascinating
perspective on our staunch devotion to mass, mutual slaughter.
Blood Rites is that rare animal, a nonfiction page-turner.
"Newsweek""
"Ehrenreich has outdone herself in breaking with conventional
history, and the result is thrilling in that seeing-the-world-anew
way."-Susan Faludi, The Nation
"Splendid . . . .A fascinating perspective on our staunch devotion
to mass, mutual slaughter. Blood Rites is that rare animal, a
nonfiction page-turner."-Newsweek
Social critic and Time magazine essayist Ehrenreich (The Worst Years of Our Lives, LJ 4/15/90) turns her attention here to anthropology, delving into the causes of man's age-old interest in war. Her remarkable thesis is that primitive peoples were defined not so much by a killer predatory instinct as by their role as prey for other animals. Social constructs such as war and ritual sacrifice then developed as ways to reenact the primal emotions of being prey‘the terror of facing a hungry beast. Her thesis is fascinating, and the anthropological exposition is well written and convincing, if mainly speculative. Ehrenreich's last section, which uses scattered examples from modern history to illustrate the "sacralization" of war, is also intriguing (if somewhat less convincing). Recommended for both public and academic libraries.‘Robert Persing, Univ. of Pennsylvania Lib., Philadelphia
"Ehrenreich has outdone herself in breaking with conventional
history, and the result is thrilling in that seeing-the-world-anew
way." --Susan Faludi, The Nation"Splendid . . . .A fascinating
perspective on our staunch devotion to mass, mutual slaughter.
Blood Rites is that rare animal, a nonfiction page-turner."
--Newsweek
Ehrenreich has outdone herself in breaking with conventional history, and the result is thrilling in that seeing-the-world-anew way. "Susan Faludi, The Nation" Splendid . . . .A fascinating perspective on our staunch devotion to mass, mutual slaughter. Blood Rites is that rare animal, a nonfiction page-turner. "Newsweek""
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