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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Collaborateurs: Kraybill, Donald B. 1945- (Éditeur intellectuel) ; Olshan, Marc Alan 1945- (Autre)
Type de support: Imprimé Livre
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Hanover, NH [u.a.] Univ. Press of New England 1994
Dans:Année: 1994
Recensions: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)
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Amish / Modernité
Sujets non-standardisés:B Amish Doctrines
B Amish Social life and customs
B Recueil d'articles
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Résumé: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
Description:Includes bibliograpical references (p. 279 - 298) and index
ISBN:0874516838