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A cultural model of solidarity and individualism exists among Afro-Bahamians in Cat Island, Baham... more A cultural model of solidarity and individualism exists among Afro-Bahamians in Cat Island, Bahamas. This model is rooted in the core value of family. This Bahamian individualism manifests itself within the context of family.

This book chapter discusses the way in which intentional community (communal societies and utopia... more This book chapter discusses the way in which intentional community (communal societies and utopian communities) serve as a form of cultural critique of the societies in which they occur.

This book chapter discusses the virtuous sexuality in Ayn Rand's novel, Atlas Shrugged.

In Judgment Day: My Years with Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden told the story of how he met Ayn Rand ... more In Judgment Day: My Years with Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden told the story of how he met Ayn Rand and became involved with her philosophy of Objectivism. But he also shared the story of his own life and the personal details of his romantic involvement with Ayn Rand. Applying an Oedipal interpretation to the life details that Branden provides, this article shows how Branden came to terms with his own developmental struggles by adopting a surrogate family in Ayn Rand and Frank O'Connor and ultimately found the family he needed in order to eventually break free and become his own person.

The first sexual encounter between Dominique Francon and Howard Roark in The Fountainhead is know... more The first sexual encounter between Dominique Francon and Howard Roark in The Fountainhead is known as the "rape scene." From the time of the novel's publication, some readers have found a contradiction between Rand's views on freedom and the violence within the novel. The ambiguity arises from the way in which the scenes leading up to the event are constructed, the sadomasochistic context of the novel, and Rand's views of gender and romantic relationships. Although Rand repeatedly denied that any rape occurred, this article concludes that a rape did occur and that Rand fully intended it to be so.

tells the story of how he came to discover Mound Bayou, Mississippi, an African American town. By... more tells the story of how he came to discover Mound Bayou, Mississippi, an African American town. By infroducing his own process of discovery-not only his discovery of this town and its remarkable and infamous founders, but also how he tracked down the historical connection between Robert Owen and this town-Rosen sets the stage for an exciting analysis of the infiuence of ideas over time and, specifically, how the Utopian ideas of Scottish industrialist Robert Owen found their way to a plantation worked by three hundred slaves in the Mississippi delta and to an all-black town in the postbcllum South. This is the story of

... Translated by Robert Hurley and Abe Stein "The thesis is radical," writes Marshall ... more ... Translated by Robert Hurley and Abe Stein "The thesis is radical," writes Marshall Sahlins of this landmark text in anthropology and political ... in 1934, Pierre Clastres was educated at the Sorbonne; throughout the 1960s he lived with Indian groups in Paraguay and Venezuela. ...

Journal for The Study of Radicalism, 2009

Women's Studies International Forum, 2000

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Wolfgang Fikentscher. Modes of Thought: A Study in the Anthropology of Law and Religion. J. C. B.