Uses classic anthropological theory to understand intentional communities in the United States.
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Although anthropologists have studied intentional communities in the past, they have seldom exerted a concerted effort to evaluate the intentional community in terms of the anthropological language of cultural change. Drawing from the work of Victor Turner, Gregory Bateson, and Anthony F. C. Wallace, Intentional Community examines historic and contemporary intentional communities within the United States, leading to a better understanding of these communities, the larger nation-state of which they are a part, and the ways in which the two interact. Applying classical anthropological theory to elements of western society, the contributors discuss how the individuals function; the ways in which these communities come into being and disappear; the various forms these communities take; how their members reinterpret features of the larger culture; and the ways in which outsiders relate to people within them.
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Susan Love Brown is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Florida Atlantic University.
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AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES,
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Susan Love Brown is an anthropology professor, and she states in the preface to this 2002 book, "This book came into being as a consequence of my attending the annual meeting of the Communal Studies Association ... in 1995. I was especially encouraged by the involvement of so many anthropologists and others who use anthropological theory to interpret experiences in community."
In this book, she brings together eight essays (two of her own), providing an academic perspective on specific issues involving intentional communities, such as, "Liminality, Communities, Charisma, and Community," "Maintaining Communitas in a Religious Community," "Development of Alternative Marriage Systems," "Community, Gender, and Violence Against the Shakers," "Sociogenesis and Schismogenesis in Intentional Communities," "Community as Cultural Critique," etc. One essay defines an intentional community as "one whose members actively strive to forge such a shared identity." In the concluding essay, Brown says, "intentional communities constitute one more tool for the analysis of culture and society." This book will be of interest to those interested in an ACADEMIC study of intentional communities, communes, utopian societies, ecovillages, and similar movements.
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