Collective Effervescence: A Back-to-the-Land Ethnography

Collective Effervescence: A Back-to-the-Land Ethnography

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Collective Effervescence: A Back-to-the-Land Ethnography
7.3 Feeling Bad About Feeling Groovy

7.3 Feeling Bad About Feeling Groovy

Research About the Counterculture

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Lisa Gruwell Spicer
Dec 15, 2024
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I hope to change the popular opinion of hippies.

Comparing my research findings to the hippie stereotype, I find a veneer of stigma upholding the popular ignorance about the movement. Counterculture critique sensationalizes the failures and dismisses hippies as a national embarrassment, of misaligned youth who were later set straight by the prosperity of…

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