Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Totem Rituals and the American Flag

Marling, Karal Ann; Marvin, Carolyn; Ingle, David W.

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“…In addition, the U.S. status as underdogs played nicely alongside the American mythology of hard-working rugged individualists who are willing to face and overcome any obstacles placed in their way. This underdog mythology-preposterous, given the United State's economic and military influence-is consonant with a central principle of American nationalism: that the United States is always on the side of good and thus never shoots first (Marvin & Ingle, 1999).…”

Section: Theory and Related Literature: Olympic Hockey And The Politicalmentioning

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Do You Believe in Nationalism? American Patriotism in Miracle

Butterworth¹

2010

Examining Identity in Sports Media

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Section: Theory and Related Literature: Olympic Hockey And The Politicalmentioning

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Do You Believe in Nationalism? American Patriotism in Miracle

Butterworth¹

2010

Examining Identity in Sports Media

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“…It also casts the child as a valued citizen or hero, putting a mother in tandem with the press, the military and the culture, in a position to justify the death of her child, should that occur. Upon the death of a child, the caring mother receives honor and recognition, symbolized by the American flag, in exchange for her child (Marvin & Ingle, 1999). This symbolic ritual, in turn, allows the cycle of war to continue (Enloe, 2000).…”

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“…For instance, flags draped on caskets and later placed in the arms of mothers or wives, as well as gold star flags in windows, tell the nation that soldiers were martyred; they died a meaningful heroic death. Marvin and Ingle (1999) argue that cultural mythology surrounding the American flag suggests that mothers sacrifice "twice…first bearing children, and then offering them for war" (p. 57). In war stories related to patriotic motherhood, death becomes purposeful, and the "rage and grief for those whose lives were unnecessarily lost or taken is extinguished" (Scheper-Hughes, 1998, p. 230).…”

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Mothers of Soldiers in Wartime: A National News Narrative

Slattery

Garner²

2007

Critical Studies in Media Communication

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“…Given the totalization, rigidity, and abstraction of nationalist practices as a whole (Kapferer [1988(Kapferer [ ] 2000, spaces sacred to the nation tend to be preoccupied with the marking of territorial and group boundaries (Marvin and Ingle 1999). Hence, they are less negotiable than most religious spaces of pilgrimage.…”

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Introduction: Contested Narratives of Storied Places—the Holy Lands

Feldman¹

2014

Religion and Society

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ABSTRACT:The articles in this special section on pilgrimage and the Holy Lands provide a wide range of perspectives on the practice, representation, and production of sacred space as expressions of knowledge and power. The experience of space of the pilgrim and the politically committed tourist is characterized by distance, impermanence, desire, contestation, and the entwinement of the material and the spiritual. The wealth of historical Christian and Western narratives/images of the Holy Land, the short duration of pilgrimage, the encounter with otherness, the entextualization of sites, and the semiotic nature of tourism all open a gap between the perceptions of pilgrims and those of 'natives' . Although the intertwining of symbolic condensation, legitimation, and power makes these Holy Land sites extremely volatile, many pilgrimages sidestep confrontation with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as inimical to the spirit of pilgrimage. A comparative view of the practices of contemporary Holy Land pilgrims demonstrates how communitas and conflict, openness and isolation are constantly being negotiated.n KEYWORDS: conflict, Holy Land, home, materiality, narratives, performances, pilgrimage, sacred spaces, tourism Edith Turner (2005: 7145-7148) provides the following definition of pilgrimage: "A religious believer in any culture may sometimes look beyond the local temple, church, or shrine, feel the call of some distant holy place renowned for miracles and the revivification of faith, and resolve to journey there. " According to this definition, the space of pilgrimage is a renowned place, a storied place. Like Mount Moriah of Isaac's sacrifice, it is "one of the mountains I shall tell thee of " (Genesis 22:2; King James translation), a distant space beyond a horizon that becomes a focus of vision and imagination, one that calls people to take to the road to journey there-a place that creates desire and, perhaps, transformation. The spiritual charge or 'magnetism' (Preston 1992) of the place, the accretion of new stories around the original ones, the transmission of those narratives in text, ritual, and iconography through generations and beyond borders-all this leads to the success of a site's career, but it also sows the seeds of conflict. The sheer number of individuals attending the site makes it a source of legitimation for believers with differing visions and a Introduction: Contested Narratives of Storied Places n 107 point of contestation between the conflicting claims of locals and visitors, laity and hierarchy, and more. Should one lapse into comfort, into taken-for-grantedness at such a place, some other will be there to remind one that claims and stories must be voiced (yet again), flags unfurled, and rituals displayed to reassert a sense of belonging to what cannot be fully possessed. Space and Place in Pilgrimage-Centers Out ThereThe study of space and place in religion has developed at a rapid pace since the spatial turn in anthropology in the 1990s, although studies of pilgrimage and the Holy Land-b...

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Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Totem Rituals and the American Flag

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Do You Believe in Nationalism? American Patriotism in Miracle

Do You Believe in Nationalism? American Patriotism in Miracle

Mothers of Soldiers in Wartime: A National News Narrative

Introduction: Contested Narratives of Storied Places—the Holy Lands

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