Collective Effervescence: A Back-to-the-Land Ethnography

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Shows how a community went from division to cohesion by finding common ground. Based on the study of back-to-the-lander newcomers and old-timers in a rural California community during the 1970s.

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About Lisa Gruwell Spicer

Lisa is a writer and video producer/editor. She teaches courses on documentary production and visual literacy and is an adjunct professor of Anthropology at WWU.

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