[Ansteorra] Theory

[L T]

I've been thinking a lot about views of the SCA...
 
Some people see the organization as a game, some as "one big family," some as
just another hobby...etc
 
My current theory of the SCA is to see it as one of the communities we inhabit.
We all have civic communities we live in. Some people have religious communites 
they participate in.. Some have fraternal or political communities they participate in. 
The SCA is just one more...
 
Further I theorize that each SCA group is like a town consisting of local nobility, shopkeepers, officials, etc. Each town may be all interrelated or may be made up of
several "families" and or non-related people. These towns hold festivals (events) periodically to encourage the exchange of ideas and promote common experiences.
 
Here's a suggestion of the types of people in a group and those who come to festivals:
 
Townspeople - those who participate in local official activity on a weekly or monthly basis. These people maintain the community of the group and set the tone of the grouup by working for the group and with each other on a consistant basis.
 
Country Dwellers - these are people whose main SCA related activity is within their own
household orgroup of friends. They participate in local offical activity infrequently and occaisionlly contribute to the workings of the local group.
 
Visitors- people from different "towns" who mostly come to visit town festivals.  They participate in the activities arranged for by the town members and sometimes help out, but they are only present for festivals.
 
Transients - those who feel their sole purpose in the SCA is to entertain themselves. They have little or no interaction with the local group and seldom participate in scheduled
activities...
 
I'm still trying to figure out terminolgy for those who participate minimally on a local level but participate and take responsibility on a Kingdom or Society level...got any ideas?
 
I'd like to hear what you think about this model!
 
if you are uncomfortable sending commentary to a list...please send it to me personally
at ldeerslayer at yahoo.com
 
Thanks
 
Lorraine DeerSlayer
 
 


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