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Oct 15, 2024
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2013-2014 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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ANT 240 - Intentional Communities4 credits A cross-cultural and historical survey of attempts to achieve social harmony by creating small communities. Topics include: ideological foundations, alternative economic and political arrangements, experiments with sexuality and gender roles, responses of the wider society, and reasons for success and failure. Groups include the first-century Essenes, the Shakers, Amana, the Hutterites, the Amish, the kibbutzim, Japanese communes, hip communes, monastic groups, and New Age communities.
Prerequisite: ANT 104 . Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year. Instructor: Andelson
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