TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith-Morris,Carolyn
TI  - Indigenous Communalism: Belonging, Healthy Communities, and Decolonizing the Collective 
SN  - 9781978805422
AV  - E99.P6 .S658 2020
U1  - 305.89745529 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - Belonging (Social psychology)
KW  - Communities
KW  - Pima Indians
KW  - Arizona
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Indigenous communalism, communalism, indigenous communities, belonging, healthy communities, Native communities, post-colonial communalism, contemporary global society, the Akimel O'odham, the Wiradjuri, culture, indigenous community builders, the collective, the individual, morality, hyper-individualist, twenty-first century, anthropology, Naïve American studies, indigenous studies, human rights, international studies, philosophy, individual rights, collective rights, communal, community, Native American, Native Indian, individualism, Indigenous rights
N1  - restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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?
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978805446?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978805446
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781978805446/original
ER  -