Community Building in Brown's Park: A Nietzschean Case Study.

The case study builds on Nietzsche's view of tradition where he claims that traditions are simply adhered to because some tradition is better than no tradition. Community, in this view, is structured around traditions that simply emerge and are maintained because they have emerged. There is no necessity to the way the community is or becomes beyond the accident of previous establishment. Brown's Park is a small community in Eastern Utah and Northwestern Colorado. It emerged through settlement in the 1870's and a set of traditions expressed through narratives came to be the community. These traditions include individual responsibility and concrn for others, a common code that is independent of formal mechanisms, the use of dance for unity, and the control of serious conflict. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]