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The communal construction of the “outsider” in a Quaker community in Costa Rica

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This paper attempts to capture the process of exclusion in a Quaker, rural farming community in the rain forest mountains of Costa Rica. The “outsider” is defined as a member of a close community, whose voice is not part of the communal dialogue. The “silenced” voice is investigated through the lives of four members — an authoritarian founding father in a community of the fraternal, an entrepreneur and his wife among the uncommercial, and an inarticulate man among the persuasive.

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  1. Bank Street College of Education, 610 West 112th Street, 10025, New York, N.Y.

    Marian Pack Howard

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Howard, M.P. The communal construction of the “outsider” in a Quaker community in Costa Rica. Qual Sociol 15, 353–375 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00989846

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