She knows that ''Blood Rites'' is an extended essay, not an academic treatise, and that she surveys rather than exhausts an enormous range of scholarship. She brings appropriate caution to her task. One of humankind's most intractable subjects, one comparable in mystery to sexuality, another topic she has taken on. One of today's most original writers has tackled Ehrenreich presents it only to serve her argument. The torrent of blood here - mythological and real, historical and current, human and animal - would be repellent, except that Ms. His book is soaked with the blood of ancient dangers, rituals and practices that, Barbara Ehrenreich argues, invested war with passions that still rule us today. Our impulse to make war, Barbara Ehrenreich says, resides in a deep ancestral memory of our role as prey
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