| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 202 pages) |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: Beyond the Threshold -- Influences and Evolution -- Communes and Intentional Living -- Hypermodern Liquid Life -- Patterns in Common -- Threshold People -- Revitalizing Community -- Narrative Arc -- 2. Elders of Utopia -- One Place, Two Directions -- Oneida Extreme -- Fertile Soil for Celibacy -- What Can Go Wrong, Will -- Frontiers, Families, Communities -- Frontier, European Style -- Week in Someone's Utopia -- 3. Last Days of the Counterculture -- Christiania's Urban Dilemma -- American Pastoral: The Farm -- City Mouse, Country House -- 4. Ritual as Nostalgia -- Road to Utopia Isn't Paved -- Floating Spirituality -- Lifting of River Otter -- Power of Ritual -- 5. Dream a Little Dream -- Arcosanti: A Postopia -- New Age to Green Age -- Ancient Concern -- Ecovillage Evolution -- Ecovillage at Ithaca -- Whole Village -- Alchemy Farm -- Sirius Community: Findhorn West -- Of Seniors and Cul-de-Sacs -- 6. Communities in Motion -- Volunteer Experience -- Locating Habitat -- Communing with the Arts -- Novel Forms of Community -- 7. Utopian End Game -- From a Yurt -- Individualism vs. Communalism -- Macro vs. Micro Authority -- Balancing Hypermodernity -- Next Generation -- Middle-Class White People -- Organization vs. ideas -- Nostalgia, the Enemy of Progress? |
| Summary |
Common Purse, Uncommon Future: The Long, Strange Trip of Communes and Other Intentional Communities explores the many new types of communal living being tried in America and Europe today. A growing number of people disenchanted with the pressures and demands of mainstream lifestyles are drawn by the nostalgic appeal of traditional, mostly agrarian and artisanal, lifestyles as practiced in residential communities where liminal rituals of membership serve to validate pacts to live and work together in cooperative social and economic relations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-192) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Collective settlements -- United States -- History
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Communitarianism -- United States -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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Collective settlements
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Communitarianism
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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dissertations.
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Academic theses.
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Thèses et écrits académiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010021210 |
| ISBN |
9780313384622 |
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0313384622 |
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9780313384639 |
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0313384630 |
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1282728555 |
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9781282728554 |
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9786612728556 |
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6612728558 |
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