Campsteading : family, place, and experience at Squam Lake, New Hampshire / Derek Pomeroy Brereton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brereton, Derek Pomeroy.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Camps--Social aspects--Cross-cultural studies.

Camps.

Camps--Social aspects--New Hampshire--Squam Lakes.

Camps--Social aspects.

New Hampshire--Squam Lakes.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.

Contents:

Part 1 Campstead experience 1

1 To camp 3

Boating out to "Main Camp" on Hoag Island 3

Of bungalows and colonisation 11

Arriving at Long Point 13

Essaying links between wayfinding, place attachment, campstead preservation, and experience 18

On re-becoming one's self 23

2 In Camp 26

Campstead "ana" and the shaping of experience 26

Of objects and adventures 30

Daydreaming with the grain 43

Preliminary summary: experience and morphogenesis 46

Landscape preference and sustainable systems 46

Evolution and campstead experience 50

Campstead games and person-place imbrication 52

The descendants of Murray Mason McGuire throw a feast 54

Further toward the nature of experience 58

3 About camp 60

Natural sources 61

Americanness is rooted in nature 64

American transcendentalism and old camps 67

Seeking to restore authenticity 75

Descending from Nirvana 85

Campstead as key symbol 96

4 Out of camp 98

Experience in motion 99

Experience in place 113

Place attachment and open spaces 120

Of movies and taxation 123 Coda: ancient cries 128

Part 2 Campstead ethnology 137

5 Campstead ethnology 139

Innate virtue 140

Differential fortune 145

The production of "houses" and "founding ancestors" 146

Archer's model of practice and morphogenesis 150

The campstead manifestation of the house 153

The co-presence of ancestral generations 154

Of ancestors and family trees 169

Chapter summary 170

6 Experience and realist anthropology: building on John Dewey's model 171

Why philosophy? 171

The necessity of experience 173

The centrality of experience in human adaptation 175

Anthropological ontology 178

The elements and nature of experience 179

Reduction of Dewey's ten chapters 184

Structures of experience 185

Dewey's discussion of experience as the ground of humanness and philosophy 186

The necessity of Dewey's experiential naturalism 193

Closing with the philosophy of social science 194

Conclusion: summary of this book's triple intent 200

Coda: absent cries 201.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780415562966

0415562961

9780203864111

0203864115

OCLC:

417445399

Publisher Number:

99936113702