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"From colonial times to the present, the United States has been home to a steady stream of utopian experimental communities. In Experimental Americans, George L. Hicks takes us inside one of the longer-lived of such communities, Celo Community in western North Carolina, to explore the dynamics of intentional communities in America.".
"Founded in 1937 by Arthur Morgan, first chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, Celo (pronounced see-lo) established its own rules of land tenure and taxation, conducted its internal business by consensus and did not require its members to accept any particular ideology or religious creed. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Celo and among its local neighbors, consultation of Celo's documentary records, and interviews with ex-members, Hicks traces the Community's ups and downs.
Attacked for its opposition to World War II, Celo was revived by pacifists released from prisons and Civilian Public Service camps after the war; debilitated in the 1950s by bitter feuds with ex-members, it was buoyed up in the 1960s by the radical enthusiasm of new currents in the nation."--BOOK JACKET.
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History, Celo Community, Utopias, Collective settlements, Utopie, Glaubensgemeinschaft, North carolina, historyPlaces
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Experimental Americans: Celo and Utopian Community in the Twentieth Century
June 11, 2001, University of Illinois Press
Hardcover
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0252026616 9780252026614
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"IN AMERICAN CULTURE, the symbols that express and reflect equality and individualism are fundamental and pervasive (Schneider 1976; Varenne 1986)."
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