1st Edition
Campsteading Family, Place, and Experience at Squam Lake, New Hampshire
By Derek Brereton
Copyright 2010
332 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
332 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
336 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The campstead is an American institution. After the Civil War, with neo-colonialism, environmentalism, and arts-and-crafts on the rise, some families sought rural locations for rustic camps. There they raised their children in the summertime. Around Squam Lake, after some eight generations, twenty-one such camps remain in these families.
The Squam area thus becomes a natural place to study... Read more
1: Campstead experience; 1: To camp; 2: In camp; 3: About camp; 4: Out of camp; 2: Campstead ethnology; 5: Campstead ethnology; 6: Experience and realist anthropology
Biography
Derek P. Brereton teaches anthropology, sociology and evolutionary psychology at Adrian College, Michigan. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Critical Realism and has published numerous journal articles on the subject of anthropology and critical realism.
