Joe Conway Communitas

At first, the concept of communitas was confusing to me, and i had trouble seeing the difference between communitas and community. Now i think i have a much better understanding of communitas. The concept does not work around what makes the community, but why that community comes together. Communitas requires a mutual understanding or shared experience, such as the rigorous action of hiking. This communitas of hikers is brought together by their shared passion and through that a bond is formed. This bond transcends society and is at a deeper level of understanding, where people are together not because that is how they are placed, but because they want to be together.