Conveys age-old lessons about culture, communalism, and the universal tension between the individual and the collective. This book is also a critical ethnography challenging the moral and cultural assumptions of a hyper-individualist, twenty-first century global society.
Indigenous Communalism is a study of community building in Native communities, and considers what models might be drawn from the strategies of Indigenous groups for post-colonial communalism and native self-determination in contemporary global society. Drawing on her ethnographic work among the Akimel O'odham and the Wiradjuri, Carolyn Smith-Morris shows how communal work and culture help these communities form distinctive indigenous bonds.