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Article: People of the Rainbow: A Nomadic Utopia.(Review)
- Article from:
- Utopian Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 1998
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Michael I. Niman. People of the Rainbow: A Nomadic Utopia.
Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1997. $50.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).
The Rainbow Family is a fascinating amalgam of people of different social, political, spiritual, cultural and economic backgrounds, all finding the point of commonality or agreement that makes it possible for otherwise conflicting world-views to co-exist for short term, yet periodic celebrations of unity. What is working for the Rainbow Family is the primitive, tribal ethos of mutual aid practiced in locations as disparate as the wild beauty of the American national forests, and the cultural wilderness of American suburbia, ...