Intentional Community - An Anthropological Perspective

Uses classical anthropological theory to understand "intentional communities" in the United States.
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.

Info autore

Susan Love Brown is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Florida Atlantic University.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Susan Love Brown (Editore)
• Editore: State University of New York Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 20.12.2001
• EAN: 9780791452219
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-5221-9
• Pagine: 198
• Peso: 386 g
• Serie: Suny Series in Medieval Middle; Suny Series in Medieval Middle; Suny Anthropological Studies o
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche