At Home in Nature By:Rebecca Kneale Gould Published on 2005-10-24 by Univ of California Press |Gould's attention to the ironies and ambivalences that abound in the practice of homesteading provides fresh and insightful perspective.|—Beth Blissman, Oberlin College |This luminously written ethnography of the worlds that homesteaders make significantly broadens our understanding of modern American religion. In richly textured descriptions of the everyday lives and work of the homesteaders with whom she lived, Gould helps us understand how the tasks of clearing land, making bread, and building a garden wall were ways of taking on the most urgent issues of meaning and ethics.|—Robert A. Orsi, Harvard University |This is a fascinating, authoritative, and accessible look at one of America's most important subcultures. If you ever get around to building that cabin in the woods, or especially if you don't, you'll want this volume on the bookshelf.|—Bill McKibben, author of Wande...
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