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At home in nature : modern homesteading and spiritual practice in America / Rebecca Kneale Gould

Gould, Rebecca Kneale, 1963-

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005

Online Ressource (1 v.)

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List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Homesteading Time Line; Introduction; 1. Conversion; 2. Getting (Not Too) Close to Nature; 3. Homemade Ritual; Interlude: Interpreting Ambivalence: Homesteading as Spiritual and Cultural Work; 4. The Reenchantment of the Farm: John Burroughs Goes Back to the Land; 5. Scott Nearing and the Social Gospel of Agriculture; 6. Ambivalent Legacies I: The Dynamics of Engagement and Retreat; 7. Ambivalent Legacies II: Gender, Class, Nature, and Religion; Appendix: Of Hoes and Huckleberries: A Note on Method; Notes; Selected Bibliography.

Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record

Print version: At home in nature

Rezensiert in: Review: At Home in Nature: Modern Homesteading and Spiritual Practice in America, by Rebecca Kneale Gould / Irén E. Annus, 2009

978-0-520-93786-4 ( : electronic bk.); 0-520-93786-4 (electronic bk.); 1-4237-1731-7 (electronic bk.); 978-1-4237-1731-7 ( : electronic bk.)

1-59875-581-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-520-24140-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-520-24142-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 1-282-35785-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-59875-581-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-520-24140-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-520-24142-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-282-35785-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 61160216     

OCoLC: 61160216 (aus SWB)     

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Motivated variously by the desire to reject consumerism, to live closer to the earth, to embrace voluntary simplicity, or to discover a more spiritual path, homesteaders have made the radical decision to go "back to the land," rejecting modern culture and amenities to live self-sufficiently and in harmony with nature