Reading Paths
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Visibusinetwalks: (N) Geographically clustered businesses with shared or related ideologies, techniques, technologies, and markets (both culturally and geographically defined) that forge allicanes through, among other things, a tribally-reminiscent ritual of visitation. Such visits function as social and financial bonding, often featuring exchange of gifts (in the form of services provided or promised by those business or their individuals' skill sets), re-enforcing bonds through explicit barter or expectation of future returns in various forms, expansion upon collaborative plans, or brainstorming of potential such projects and "gifts," with implicit or explicit purpose of furthering those economic-social bonds in the name of ideological ends, community-strengthening, and furthering the ideology as well as the potential understandings of the concept of "community." Without specific intent or projection of events, these visits often start with a member or members of one group/business/tribe saying, "I'm going to walk over to such-and-such a place" without further outline of intent, stemming from and re-enforcing the social aspect that often establishes and inevitably strengthens these "business" relationships.
Location
City: Boston Metro Area - Spring 2010