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Utopia and Its Discontents: The Kibbutz and Its Historical Vicissitudes
Author(s) -
SPIRO MELFORD E.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.2004.106.3.556
Subject(s) - explication , utopia , determinism , sociology , movement (music) , epistemology , aesthetics , environmental ethics , social science , history , philosophy , art history
Following an explication of “utopianism,” this article describes the social and cultural systems of the original utopian communes comprising the Israeli kibbutz movement. It then describes the radical changes that have been made in those systems. After accounting for these changes, it assesses their implications for the utopian and cultural determinist theories of human nature.