Revitalization movement

Revitalization movement

In 1956, Anthony F. C. Wallace published a paper called "Revitalization Movements" to describe how cultures change themselves. A revitalization movement is a "deliberate, organized, conscious effort by members of a group to create a new culture," and Wallace describes at length the processes by which a revitalization movement takes place. [Wallace, Anthony. 1956. "Revitalization Movements," "American Anthropologist" 58: 264-281]

Wallace derived his theory from studies of so-called primitive peoples (preliterate and homogeneous), with particular attention to the Iroquois revitalization movement led by Seneca religious leader and "prophet" Handsome Lake (1735-1815). Wallace believed that his revitalization model applies to movements as broad and complex as the rise of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, or Wesleyan Methodism.

ee also

*Ghost Dance: a famous Native American revitalization movement
*Great Awakenings: a controversially named reference to revitalization movements in the USA.
*Revivalism

References

*Kehoe, B Alice, "The Ghost Dance: Ethnohistory and Revitalization, Massacre at Wounded Knee Creek," Thompson Publishing, 1989.


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