The Amish struggle with modernity / edited by Donald B. Kraybill and Marc A. Olshan.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kraybill, Donald B.
Olshan, Marc Alan, 1945-
Language:English
Published: Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, [1994], ©1994.
Subjects:
Amish > Doctrines.
Amish > Social life and customs.
Physical Description:ix, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.