Research Catalog

Title

People of the rainbow : a nomadic utopia / Michael I. Niman.

Author

Niman, Michael I.

Publication

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2011.

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Description

xx, 336 pages, [14] pages of plates : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Since 1972 the Rainbow Family of Living Light, a loosely organized and anarchistic nomadic community, has been holding large gatherings in remote forests to pray for world peace and create a model of a functioning utopian society. Michael I. Niman's People of the Rainbow, originally published in 1997, was the first comprehensive study of this countercultural group and its eclectic philosophy of environmentalism, feminism, peace activism, group sharing, libertarianism, and consensus government.

Subject

• Rainbow Family of Living Light
• Rainbow Family of Living Light
• Geschichte
• Since 1900
• Utopias > History > 20th century
• Nonviolence > History > 20th century
• Social history > 1970-
• Nonviolence
• Social history
• Utopias
• Feminismus
• Gewaltlosigkeit
• Libertarianismus
• Umweltschutz
• Utopie
• USA

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-326) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Sunflower's day : July 3 -- Roots, rock, rainbow -- "The way we make decisions is more important than the decisions we make" : the Rainbow Family Council -- The nuts and bolts of making a rainbow : rainbow infrastructure -- People of the rainbow -- Violence and peace -- Fakelore -- The mediated rainbow : the American media look at the rainbow family -- Leave only smiles : land stewardship and community relations -- The rainbow and the U.S. government -- Conclusion : endless summer -- Epilogue 1. Global movement faces a changing world -- Epilogue 2. Freedom to gather in the twenty-first century.

ISBN

• 9781572337466
• 157233746X

OCLC

707608382

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library