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Year of the Communes, The

• 1970 ----- color ----- 54 min ----- 16mm
• Reveals the life-styles found on different kinds of communes in America. Traces, briefly, the history of communal settlements from the pilgrims to the present. Reviews the reasons for their success or failure. Includes a wide variety of communities of the 1970's that stress sensitivity training, mysticism, group marriage, religious messianism, family closeness, drug orientation or grassroots idealism. Documents the widespread urge of many Americans from different backgrounds to create alternate and more satisfying life-styles.
• Topics: (Anthropology, Philosophy, Sociology)

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