附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Homesteading Time Line; Introduction; 1. Conversion; 2. Getting (Not Too) Close to Nature; 3. Homemade Ritual; Interlude: Interpreting Ambivalence: Homesteading as Spiritual and Cultural Work; 4. The Reenchantment of the Farm: John Burroughs Goes Back to the Land; 5. Scott Nearing and the Social Gospel of Agriculture; 6. Ambivalent Legacies I: The Dynamics of Engagement and Retreat; 7. Ambivalent Legacies II: Gender, Class, Nature, and Religion; Appendix: Of Hoes and Huckleberries: A Note on Method; Notes; Selected Bibliography.
摘要:Motivated variously by the desire to reject consumerism, to live closer to the earth, to embrace voluntary simplicity, or to discover a more spiritual path, homesteaders have made the radical decision to go "back to the land," rejecting modern culture and amenities to live self-sufficiently and in harmony with nature.
