Indigenous Communalism: Belonging, Healthy Communities, and Decolonizing the Collective

by Carolyn Smith-Morris

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 197880542X
• ISBN13: 9781978805422
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher