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OverviewThis book documents the wide range of contemporary communes and other intentional communities providing sanctuaries for like-minded people to pursue cooperative alternatives to media-stoked consumerism and the relentless tempo of change that characterizes mainstream life in 21st-century America and Europe. 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. Manzella focuses on the ways in which today's most innovative and controversial ecovillages diverge from the hippie communes of yesteryear's counterculture and from older communal forms such as kibbutzim and arts and crafts colonies, and how today's nonsectarian spiritual and volunteer service communities differ from traditional religious communes and ashrams. He reports his field investigations of a whole new generation of communal living experiments, such as residential land trusts, survivalist retreats, urban cohousing, green housing cooperatives, student co-ops, and New Age organic agrarian communes. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Joseph C. ManzellaPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9780313384622ISBN 10: 0313384622 Pages: 202 Publication Date: 02 September 2010 Recommended Age: From 7 to 17 years Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviews<p>. .. Combining elements of historical retrospective, travelogue, and sociological and anthropological analysis, he examines communities mainly in the US and Western Europe. ...Recommended. - <p>Choice ... Combining elements of historical retrospective, travelogue, and sociological and anthropological analysis, he examines communities mainly in the US and Western Europe. ...Recommended. - Choice . .. Combining elements of historical retrospective, travelogue, and sociological and anthropological analysis, he examines communities mainly in the US and Western Europe. ...Recommended. - Choice """... Combining elements of historical retrospective, travelogue, and sociological and anthropological analysis, he examines communities mainly in the US and Western Europe. ...Recommended."" - Choice" ... Combining elements of historical retrospective, travelogue, and sociological and anthropological analysis, he examines communities mainly in the US and Western Europe. ...Recommended. - Choice Author InformationJoseph C. Manzella, PhD, is professor of anthropology at Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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