Amish struggle with modernity
Object category:
Druckschrift
Person/Institution:
Publisher:
Univ. Press of New England
Place of publication:
Hanover, NH [u.a.
Date:
1994
Extent, illustration, format:
IX, 304 S Ill., graph. Darst 23 cm
Language:
Englisch
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Abstract:
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
Object text:
ed. by Donald B. Kraybill and Marc A. Olshan
Includes bibliograpical references (p. 279 - 298) and index
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Includes bibliograpical references (p. 279 - 298) and index
Archivierung prüfen 20200919 DE-640 3 pdager
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; Persistence and change in Amish education; Amish on the line : the telephone debates; The origin and growth of Amish tourism; Amish cottage industries as Trojan horse; The rise of microenterprises; Lunch pails and factories; Modernity, the folk society, and the old order Amish ; Homespun bureaucracy : a case study in organizational evolution; Amish women and the feminist conundrum; Conclusion : what good are the Amish?
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Universität Erfurt
Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
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99867 Gotha
+49 361 737-5540
bibliothek.gotha(at)uni-erfurt.de
Forschungsbibliothek Gotha
Schloss Friedenstein
Schlossplatz 1
99867 Gotha
+49 361 737-5540
bibliothek.gotha(at)uni-erfurt.de
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