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Community Anchors: Sustaining Religious Institutions, Small Business, and Social Clubs that Serve as Art Centers for their Communities

Molly Garfinkel and Steve Zeitlin

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Garfinkel, Molly and Steve Zeitlin. “Community Anchors: Sustaining Religious Instititutions, Small Businesses, and Social Clubs that Serve as Arts Centers for their Communities.” New York Folklore, Vol. 46:1-2, 2020. pp 13-15.

Summary

Community anchors - the organziations that communities create in response to the conditions in whih their members live - are incubators for vibrant cultural activity and are critical to the cultural ecology of American cities. The authors identify three organizational typologies - religious institutions, social clubs and mutual aid societies, and small businesses.
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