Literary notes about Communal (AI summary)
In literature, “communal” is often used to evoke the idea of collective living and shared responsibilities within a group or society. Authors employ the term to describe various forms of group solidarity—whether it is the mode of labor organization among indigenous peoples, where shared tasks such as canoe-building or communal gardening underscore practical cooperation [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], or institutional arrangements such as communal governance and property systems that structure urban and rural life [6, 7, 8]. In more abstract considerations, “communal” contrasts individual rights with collective obligations, suggesting how shared values and morals can both form and constrain the development of personal identity and social order [9, 10, 11, 12, 13]. This multifaceted use underscores its role as a key concept in both sociological analysis and literary portrayal of society.
- Communal labour is an important factor in the tribal economy of the Trobriand natives.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski - Certainly the minute tasks of lashing, caulking and painting, as well as sail-making, were done by communal labour as opposed to individual.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski - When several villages agree to work their gardens by communal labour, this is called lubalabisa .
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski - By far the most important part communal labour has to play, is in gardening.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski - Thus, in some cases, [ 160 ] communal labour is of extreme importance, and in all casesit furthers the course of work considerably.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski - Founds the communal "Guild of St. George".
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14: The New Era A Supplementary Volume, by Recent Writers, as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents by John Lord - At Pistoia the Podestà and the Communal Palace stand opposite each other; in both of these the courtyards still retain their original aspect.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Our commons, too, many of which remain in spite of numerous inclosures, are evidences of the communal life of our village forefathers.
— from English Villages by P. H. Ditchfield - The kind of communal life resulting will depend upon the nature of the demands made by the species in regard to conditions of life.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - We are not educated up to our individual rights in spite of our communal relations, but because of these.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 41, No. 1, January, 1887 by Various - The past is communal: the future must be individualist.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. Chesterton - But the "communal spirit" is master of us: have you observed that this is almost a definition of morality?
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Nietzsche - No morality will countenance order of rank among men, and the jurists know nothing of a communal conscience.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Nietzsche
