She reminds us that there is inspiration to be found in the unique ways these intentional communities pursued radical social goals. Reconstructing the past of intentional communities from across the United. She urges researchers not to dismiss these communal experiments as quaint failures but to question how the lifestyles of the people in these groups are interpreted for visitors today. Buy a cheap copy of The Archaeology of Utopian and. Surveying settlement patterns, the built environment, and even the smallest artifacts such as tobacco pipes and buttons, Stacy Kozakavich explores groups including the Shakers, the Harmony Society, the Moravians, the Ephrata Cloister, the Oneida community, Brook Farm, Mormon towns, the Llano del Rio colony, and the Kaweah colony. The case studies in this volume use archaeological evidence to reveal how these communities upheld their societal ideals-and how some diverged from them in everyday life. Utopian and intentional communities have dotted the American landscape since the colonial era, yet only in recent decades have archaeologists begun analyzing the material culture left behind by these groups. Kozakavich offers a compelling argument about the significant place of intentional communities in the American experience and beyond."-Lu Ann De Cunzo, coeditor of Unlocking the Past: Celebrating Historical Archaeology in North America
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