Campsteading - Couverture souple

Brereton, Derek

 
9780415592000: Campsteading
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0415592003 ISBN 13 : 9780415592000
Editeur : Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

The campstead is an American institution. After the Civil War, with neo-colonialism, environmentalism, and arts-and-crafts on the rise, some families sought rural locations for rustic camps. There they raised their children in the summertime. Around Squam Lake, after some eight generations, twenty-one such camps remain in these families.

The Squam area thus becomes a natural place to study relationships of persons and places, families and landscape, and humans and the world. Our present concerns for environmental stewardship, open space protection, and core values instead of consumerism, make this a good time to revisit the simple American Campstead.

Rustic camping itself revisited aspects of the American frontier. Just as the western frontier was disappearing, some families resorted to remnants of the first frontier among mountains and lakes of the Northeast. Through campsteads, these families preserved elements of the frontier ethos. Campsteads facilitate particular experiences involving nature and family. Brereton investigates campstead experience, and through it the nature of human experience generally.

This book is the first detailed account of campsteading, the first application of critical realism in anthropology, and the first anthropological use of John Dewey's evolutionary model of experience. Building on Dewey, the author further analyses experience into its levels, orders, and features.

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À propos de l?auteur

Derek P. Brereton teaches anthropology, sociology and evolutionary psychology at Adrian College, Michigan. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Critical Realism and has published numerous journal articles on the subject of anthropology and critical realism.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0415592003
ISBN 13 
9780415592000
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
336
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780415562966: Campsteading: Family, Place, and Experience at Squam Lake, New Hampshire

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0415562961 ISBN 13 :  9780415562966
Editeur : Routledge, 2009
Couverture rigide