Title Families and communes : an examination of nontraditional lifestyles / William L. Smith

Published Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 161 pages) : illustrations Series Understanding families Understanding families. Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 2. Communes: Conceptual, Definitional, Theoretical, and Typological Issues -- 3. Families in Historic Communal Utopias: Part 1 -- 4. Families in Historic Communal Utopias: Part 2 -- 5. Urban and Rural Communes of the 1960s and 1970s -- 6. Urban and Rural Communes of the 1980s and 1990s -- 7. What Have We Learned About Families and Communities? Summary "What is life like in contemporary American communes? How do families fit into communal life? What are communal families, and what impact do families have on how communes are run and how they develop? As the only contemporary exploration of communal families, this book investigates the assumptions that scholars, and others, have made regarding the status of the family within communes, and debunks current myths about communes and communal families. Drawing on the history of communes in the United States, Smith discusses various communal groups, such as the Shakers, the Mormons, the Oneida Community, the Amana Colonies, as well as contemporary rural and urban communal groups such as Twin Oaks, Jesus People USA, and the Hutterites."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-147) and indexes Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Communal living -- United States -- History Collective settlements -- United States -- History Families -- United States -- History Alternative lifestyles -- United States -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Marriage & Family. Alternative lifestyles Collective settlements Communal living Families Communes. Gezin. United States Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book LC no. 99006017 ISBN 9781452263731 1452263736 9781452233994 1452233993

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