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Some Basic Readings on Community

Alperson, Philip (editor) (2002) Diversity and Community: An Interdisciplinary Reader. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

Amit, Vered (2002) Realizing Community: Concepts, Social Relationships, and Sentiments. London and New York: Routledge (European Association of Social Anthropologists)

Amit, Vered and Nigel Rapport (2002) The Trouble with Community: Anthropological Reflections on Movement, Identity and Collectivity. London and Sterling, VA: Pluto Press.

Anderson, Benedict (1991) Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism.

Bender, Thomas (1982) Community and Social Change in America. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press (originally published by Rutgers University Press, 1978).

Bestor, Theodore C. (1989) Neighborhood Tokyo. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Clark, David B. (1973) "The concept of community: a reexamination," Sociological Review 23:397-415.

Cohen, Anthony P. (1985) The Symbolic Construction of Community. Chicester: Horwood.

Dasgupta, Satadal (1996) "The Community: Definitions and Perspectives," pp. 3-86 in Satadal Dasgupta (editor), The Community in Canada: Rural and Urban, Lanham, ND: University Press of America.

English-Lueck, J. A. (2002) Cultures@Silicon Valley. Stanford, CA: Standford University Press.

Fischer, Edward F. and Carol Erickson (2003) Tecpán Guatemala: A Modern Maya Town in Global and Local Context. Boulder, CO: Westview Case Studies in Anthropology.

Foster, George M. (1967) Tzintzuntzan: Mexican Peasants in a Changing World. Boston: Little, Brown.

Frankenberg, Robert (1966) Communities in Britain. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.

Hamilton, Nora and Morma Stoltz Chincilla (2001) Seeking Community: Guatemalans and Salvadorans in Los Angeles. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.

Heyck, Denis Lynn Daly (2002) Surviving Globalization in Three Latin American Communities.Orchard Park, NY: Broadview Press.

Hillery, George A., Jr. (1955) "Definitions of Community," Rural Sociology 20(2):111-123.

Hillery, George A., Jr. (1972) "Selected Issues in Community theory," Rural Sociology 37(4): 534-552.

Johnson, Sheila K. (1971) Idle Haven: Community Building among the Working-class Retired. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Kearney, Michael 1996) Reconceptualizing the Peasantry: Anthropology in Global Perspective. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Keller, Suzanne (2003) Community: Pursuing the Dream, Living the Reality. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Kemper, Robert V. and Anya Peterson Royce (2002) Chronicling Cultures: Long-Term Field Research in Anthropology. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.

Kretzmann, John P. and John L. McKnight (1993) Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community’s Assets. Chicago: ACTA Publications, for the Asset-Based Community Development Institute, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University.

Minar, David and Scott Greer (1969) The Concept of Community. Chicago: Aldine.

Murphy, Robert (1987) The Body Silent: The Different World of the Disabled. New York: W. W. Norton.

Ness, Sally Ann (2003) Where Asia Smiles: An Ethnography of Philippine Tourism. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Nisbet, Robert A. (1962) Community and Power. New York: Oxford University Press.

Poplin, Dennis E. (1972) Communities: A Survey of Theories and Methods of Research. New York: MacMillan.

Putnam, Robert (2000) Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.

Redfield, Robert (1960) The Little Community/Peasant Society and Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Rotenberg, Robert and Gary McDonogh [editors] (1993) The Cultural Meaning of Urban Space. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey.

Salomonsen, Jone (2002) Enchanted Feminism: The Reclaiming Witches of San Francisco. London and New York: Routledge.

Sassen, Saskia [editor] (2002) Global Networks, Linked Cities. New York, NY: Routledge.

Schensul, Jean J. et al. (1999) Mapping Social Networks, Spatial Data, & Hidden Populations. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.

Shokeid, Moshe (2003) A Gay Synagogue in New York. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Suttles, Gerald (1972) The Social Construction of Communities. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Tönnies, Ferdinand (1963) Community & Society (translated and edited by Charles P. Loomis). New York: Harper Torchbooks (originally published as Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft, 1887; first English translation published by Michigan State University Press, 1957).

Warner, W. L. (1941) "Social Anthropology and the Modern Community," American journal of Sociology 46:785-796.

Warner, W. L. and P. Lunt (1941) The Social Life of a Modern community. New Haven: yale University Press.

Warren, Roland L. (1965) Studying Your Community. New York: The Free Press (originally published by the Russell Sage Foundation, 1955)

Wolf, Deborah G. (1979) The Lesbian Community. Berkeley: University of California Press.