Brereton | Campsteading | Buch | 978-0-415-56296-6 | sack.de

Buch, Englisch, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 669 g

Brereton

Campsteading

Family, Place, and Experience at Squam Lake, New Hampshire

Buch, Englisch, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 669 g

ISBN: 978-0-415-56296-6
Verlag: Routledge


The campstead is an American institution. After the Civil War, with neo-colonialism, environmentalism, and arts-and-crafts on the rise, some families sought rural locations for rustic camps. There they raised their children in the summertime. Around Squam Lake, after some eight generations, twenty-one such camps remain in these families.

The Squam area thus becomes a natural place to study relationships of persons and places, families and landscape, and humans and the world. Our present concerns for environmental stewardship, open space protection, and core values instead of consumerism, make this a good time to revisit the simple American Campstead.

Rustic camping itself revisited aspects of the American frontier. Just as the western frontier was disappearing, some families resorted to remnants of the first frontier among mountains and lakes of the Northeast. Through campsteads, these families preserved elements of the frontier ethos. Campsteads facilitate particular experiences involving nature and family. Brereton investigates campstead experience, and through it the nature of human experience generally.

This book is the first detailed account of campsteading, the first application of critical realism in anthropology, and the first anthropological use of John Dewey's evolutionary model of experience. Building on Dewey, the author further analyses experience into its levels, orders, and features.
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1: Campstead experience; 1: To camp; 2: In camp; 3: About camp; 4: Out of camp; 2: Campstead ethnology; 5: Campstead ethnology; 6: Experience and realist anthropology


DerekP. Brereton teaches anthropology, sociology and evolutionary psychologyat Adrian College, Michigan.Heis on the editorial board of theJournal of Critical Realism and has published numerous journal articles on the subject of anthropology and critical realism.


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