Book
A peculiar people: Iowa's Old Order Amish
Iowa State University Press • Ames • Published In 1975 • Pages:
By: Schwieder, Elmer, Schwieder, Dorothy.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work is a study of Iowa's contemporary Old Order Amish based on data gathered in the Kalona, Buchanan County and Milton Old Order Amish communities. Specifically, religious practices, economic organization, family life, patterns of mobility and organized resettlement and education among the Iowa Old Order Amish are examined. A chapter devoted entirely to the Buchanan school controversy also provides useful information on Old Order interaction with the non-Amish world and on non-Amish attitudes towards the 'Plain People'. In addition, the Old World and New World history of the Amish is related, along with a discussion of the origins of the Old Order Amish and their migration to and settlement in Iowa. Also included are a brief discussion of the distribution and character of Old Order Amish and Mennonite communities in the Midwestern states and an assessment of the future of the Old Order Amish in Iowa and elsewhere in the United States. The numerous footnotes throughout the text are primarily bibliographical in nature with occasional references to interviews from which data were obtained for this document. This information will be found in Information Sources Listed In Other Works (113), pp. 169-177, at the end of the text.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Congregations
- Religious denominations
- Literary texts
- Theological systems
- Education system
- Internal migration
- General character of religion
- History
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Amish
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Sociologist
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Gerald Reid ; John Beierle ; 1987: John Beierle; 2007
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1970-ca. 1974
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1700-1974
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Iowa, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Elmer Schwieder and Dorothy Schwieder
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-181)and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75023420
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Amish