The Danish concept of faellesskab (community) is explored in this article. Faellesskab covers different kinds of belonging and notions of proper togetherness in Danish society, ranging from neighborhood relations at the local level to membership in society at the national level. In investigating the ideals and practices of faellesskab in housing cooperatives, the article shows how people establish connections between these different scales of sociality. It argues that the way people live together in housing cooperatives, in a close atmosphere of egalitarian togetherness, is a cultural ideal in modern Denmark. The more recent commercialization of cooperative property has, however, caused concern. While some believe that faellesskab can still be practiced in the small enclaves of autonomous cooperatives, others fear that this ideal is threatened by economic inequalities.
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Egalitarianism and Community in danish housing Cooperatives
Proper Forms of Sharing and Being Together
Maja Hojer Bruun
Pentecostalism and Egalitarianism in Melanesia
A Reconsideration of the Pentecostal Gender Paradox
Annelin Eriksen
societies have often been understood and discussed as almost the prototypical egalitarian society (see, e.g., Lepowsky 1990 ). However, the understanding of what egalitarianism is has often been based on ideas of economic distribution or political systems
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2016
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- Research Article
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- 37–50 (14 total)
The Australian Society of the State
Egalitarian Ideologies and New Directions in Exclusionary Practice
Bruce Kapferer and Barry Morris
This article considers the broad historical and ideological processes that participate in forming the continuities and discontinuities of Australian egalitarian nationalism. We draw attention to its forma- tion and re-formation in the debates surrounding the so-called Han- son phenomenon. Hansonism refracts the crisis of what we regard as the Australian society of the state in the circumstances of the devel- opment of neoliberal policies and the more recent neoconservative turn of the current Howard government. Our argument is directed to exploring the contradictions and tensions in Australian egalitarian thought and practice and its thoroughgoing creative reengagement in contemporary postcolonial and postmodern Australia.
In Social Analysis
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- 01 Dec 2003
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 80–107 (28 total)
Money Can't Buy Me Hygge
Danish Middle-Class Consumption, Egalitarianism, and the Sanctity of Inner Space
Jeppe Trolle Linnet
In this article, the style of social interaction known as hygge is analyzed as being related to cultural values that idealize the notion of 'inner space' and to other egalitarian norms of everyday life in Scandinavian societies. While commonly experienced as a pleasurable involvement in a social and spatial interior, hygge is also examined as a mode of withdrawal from alienating conditions of modernity. In spite of its egalitarian features, hygge acts as a vehicle for social control, establishes its own hierarchy of attitudes, and implies a negative stereotyping of social groups who are perceived as unable to create hygge. The idea of hygge as a trait of Scandinavian culture is developed in the course of the interpretation, and its limitations are also discussed against ethnographic evidence that comparable spatial and social dynamics unfold in other cultural contexts.
Islam and Pious Sociality
The Ethics of Hierarchy in the Tablighi Jamaat in Pakistan
Arsalan Khan
, who have adopted an ethics of egalitarian individualism that places ultimate value on individual autonomy, authenticity, and agency. Tablighis understand this ethics of egalitarian individualism to be one characterized by hubris and willfulness, which
In Social Analysis
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- 01 Dec 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 96–113 (18 total)
Vertical Love
Forms of Submission and Top-Down Power in Orthodox Ethiopia
Diego Maria Malara and Tom Boylston
human selfishness and the realities of power co-exists with a deep-seated ethic of mutual care and neighborliness. We do not wish to oppose a vertical notion of power to one of horizontal or egalitarian love. On the contrary, we argue that the forms of
Left in the Cold
The Mirage of Marriage and Family Law Reform in Post-Colonial Mali
Bruce Whitehouse
structural failings of Mali's post-colonial state, have stymied efforts to ensure women's rights within a secular, egalitarian legal framework. My analysis focusses on Bamako, the capital city, where I have conducted ethnographic research on marriage since
In Journal of Legal Anthropology
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- 01 Jun 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 73–94 (22 total)
Battle of Cosmologies
The Catholic Church, Adat, and ‘Inculturation’ among Northern Lio, Indonesia
Signe Howell
particularity—the whole—of each schema. Hierarchy, in such cases, is fundamental to the whole society. This, he argues, is characteristic of many non-Western societies. By contrast, according to contemporary Western ideology, 3 egalitarianism (which is coupled
Temperamental Differences
The Shifting Political Implications of Cousin Marriage in Nineteenth-Century America
Susan McKinnon
wake of the new industrial and social transformations in the US. It simultaneously valorized difference, mixing, and ‘out’ marriage as a requirement for the vitality, progress, and equality of the masses in a progressive, egalitarian, democratic social
Demotion as Value
Rank Infraction among the Ngadha in Flores, Indonesia
Olaf H. Smedal
Howell describes differs markedly from that explored in this article). The first construct is articulated as a social organization characterized by hereditary rank. The other echoes ideas of a more democratic and egalitarian social order. The first finds
In Social Analysis
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 114–133 (20 total)