History, anthropology and study of communities.

The article discusses the history and anthropology of communities. The existence of communities in distant lands is significant for industrial societies. Community is a territorial group of people with a common mode of living striving for common objectives. In practice, community studies are non-comparable and non-cumulative. Several criticisms on community studies are presented. One criticism asserts that the concepts and methods were developed for the study of groups which were geographically and socially isolated. Another criticism deals with absence of any time dimension in community studies.