(collected early Wednesday morning)
I woke up absurdly early thinking about examples of 'tribe' that I wanted to weave in somewhere.
(New York Times 2014)
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Rites and Celebrations
St. Patrick's Day ("Everybody's Irish")
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Ah, the Alma Mater: What makes a House a home at Harvard
Mormons might qualify as a tribe, endogamous but proselytizing
Anabaptists (Amish, Mennonites, Hutterites) surely operate tribally
Don't miss this absolutely riveting video:
Shunned Amish Woman interview-Mary
See also Miriam Toews' novels All My Puny Sorrows and Women Talking (the film of which is available via Amazon Prime)
Counterculture tribes exemplified by Gaskinites and The Farm
(an example of Commune evolution,
beginning with Stephen Gaskin's Monday Night Class in San Francisco in the mid-1960s.
300 people moved to Tennessee in 1969: "Technicolor Amish")
Fort Hill and Mel Lyman, anybody?