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Common purse, uncommon future : the long, strange trip of communes and other intentional communities /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Manzella, Joseph C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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?