essay
War against progress: coping with social change
Amish struggle with modernity • Hanover, Nh • Published In 1994 • Pages: 34-50, 263-264
By: Kraybill, Donald B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Amish resistance to modernity in many ways is a war against the spirit of progress. The cultural battle waged by the Amish involves the drawing and redrawing of social lines to maintain their identity and preserve their culture. Donald B. Kraybill explores the external and internal documents of social change in Amish life and discusses the process by which new practices are rejected or gradually accepted. He identifies some of the social throttles that influence the adoption of innovations and discusses the cultural mixing of old and new that sometimes produces the baffling hybrids of Amish life (p. 35).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Avoidance and taboo
- General character of religion
- Congregations
- Cultural identity and pride
- Functional and adaptational interpretations
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Sociologist
- 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
- John Beierle; 2007
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Donald B. Kraybill
- For bibliographical references see document 20: [Kraybill and Olshan]
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 94013668
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Amish