The Amish struggle with modernity
Introduction : the struggle to be separate ; The Amish encounter with modernity ; War against progress : coping with social change ; Plotting social change across four affiliations / Donald B. Kraybill -- Persistence and change in Amish education / Gertrude Enders Huntington -- Amish on the line : t...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Hanover, NH [u.a.]
Univ. Press of New England
1994
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| In: | Year: 1994 |
| Reviews: | The Amish Struggle with Modernity, edited by Donald B. Kraybill and Marc A. Olshan. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1994, 304 pp. 17.95 (paper) (1995) (Beaman-Hall, Lori)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Amish
/ Modernity
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| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Amish Doctrines B Amish Social life and customs |
| Summary: | Introduction : the struggle to be separate ; The Amish encounter with modernity ; War against progress : coping with social change ; Plotting social change across four affiliations / Donald B. Kraybill -- Persistence and change in Amish education / Gertrude Enders Huntington -- Amish on the line : the telephone debates / Diane Zimmerman Umble -- The origin and growth of Amish tourism / David Luthy -- Amish cottage industries as Trojan horse / Marc A. Olshan -- The rise of microenterprises / Donald B. Kraybill and Steven M. Nolt -- Lunch pails and factories / Thomas J. Meyers -- Modernity, the folk society, and the old order Amish ; Homespun bureaucracy : a case study in organizational evolution / Marc A. Olshan -- Amish women and the feminist conundrum / Marc A. Olshan and Kimberly D. Schmidt -- Conclusion : what good are the Amish? / Marc A. Olshan |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliograpical references (p. 279 - 298) and index |
| ISBN: | 0874516838 |