Indigenous Communalism

Name: Indigenous Communalism
Brand: Rutgers University Press
SKU: 9781978805422
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Belonging, Healthy Communities, and Decolonizing the Collective

Автор: Carolyn Smith-Morris

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Корици: С твърди корици

Издател: Rutgers University Press

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From a grandmother's inter-generational care to the strategic and slow consensus work of elected tri...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Carolyn Smith-Morris

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2019

страници

192

EAN

9781978805422

ISBN

9781978805422

Enbook ID

22368969

Издател

Rutgers University Press

Теглоt

386

Размери

152 x 229 x 18

Пълно описание

From a grandmother's inter-generational care to the strategic and slow consensus work of elected tribal leaders, Indigenous community builders perform the daily work of culture and communalism. Indigenous Communalism conveys age-old lessons about culture, communalism, and the universal tension between the individual and the collective. It is also a critical ethnography challenging the moral and cultural assumptions of a hyper-individualist, twenty-first century global society.

Told in vibrant detail, the narrative of the book conveys the importance of communalism as a value system present in all human groups and one at the center of Indigenous survival. Carolyn Smith-Morris draws on her work among the Akimel O'odham and the Wiradjuri to show how communal work and culture help these communities form distinctive Indigenous bonds. The results are not only a rich study of Indigenous relational lifeways, but a serious inquiry to the continuing acculturative atmosphere that Indigenous communities struggle to resist. Recognizing both positive and negative sides to the issue, she asks whether there is a global Indigenous communalism. And if so, what lessons does it teach about healthy communities, the universal human need for belonging, and the potential for the collective to do good?

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