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This chapter discusses indoor–outdoor anthropology. It describes the conditions underlying the evolution of group-cultures. The chapter presents the distinction between indoor and outdoor group-cultures by virtue of the control exercised over the environments within which action and interaction occur. It is argued that what makes communities viable at all within their natural and social environment is the capacity to organize their internal affairs in such a way as to provide supportive and stable environments. These, then, are the indoor environments: the plazas, the dancing grounds, the kivas and churches, the masonic halls and most other secret environments, the theaters and game grounds, and rinks and fields. It is recommended that the populations of evolving group-cultures indoors be related through networks to communes so that experimental steps can be taken in which new communities are formed on the basis of knowledge of social and cultural process. |
