essay
Plotting social change across four affiliations
Amish struggle with modernity • Hanover, Nh • Published In 1994 • Pages: 52-74, 264-267
By: Kraybill, Donald B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The Amish response to modernity has not been uniform. Different affiliations of Amish in various settlements have developed a diversity of lifestyle practices. Donald B. Kraybill compares four affiliations that live side by side in the largest Amish settlement of North America in the Holmes County area of Ohio. The four major groups in this geographical setting have drawn the battle lines in different places in their struggle with modernity. Kraybill explores the relationship between the retention of youth and the use of technology and suggests that both reflect an underlying shift in consciousness among the more progressive groups (p. 53).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Congregations
- Religious denominations
- General character of religion
- Cultural participation
- Avoidance and taboo
- Sociocultural trends
- 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.
- 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
- 1992-1993
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1809-1993
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Holmes County, Ohio, 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