essay
The origin and growth of Amish tourism
Amish struggle with modernity • Hanover, Nh • Published In 1994 • Pages: 112-129, 270
By: Luthy, David.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In their struggle to remain separate the Amish grew increasingly peculiar as the cultural gap between them and the larger society widened in the twentieth century. The growing peculiarity of Amish culture, as well as the expansion of travel, leisure, and mass media, provided the ingredients for the growth of public curiosity. After midcentury the Amish no longer had to merely resist the technological changes that intruded into rural areas, they now faced tourists by the millions, who came to inspect Amish ways and buy their handcrafted products. Amishman David Luthy traces the phenomenal rise of the Amish image in public media -- books, drama, tourist paraphernalia -- as well as the growth of tourism itself (p. 113).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Information sources listed in other works
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Food service industries
- Settlement patterns
- Travel services
- Individual enterprise
- 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.
- Indigenous Person
- 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
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1808-1992
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- David Luthy
- For bibliographical references see document 20: [Kraybill and Olshan]
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 94013668
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Amish