essay
Amish cottage industries as Trojan horse
Amish struggle with modernity • Hanover, Nh • Published In 1994 • Pages: 132-146, 270-271
By: Olshan, Marc Alan.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Traditional Amish culture has been shaped by its longtime association with farming. Rural isolation helped to perpetuate the seclusion and separation of Amish life. In recent years, however, many Amish persons have developed small businesses and cottage industries on their farms and in other cases have given up farming entirely. In this article, based on field observations in New York State, Marc A. Olshan argues that the proliferation of cottage industries sybolizes a rather dramatic 'opening' of Amish society to the larger world -- an opening that will surely bring substantial consequences in their struggle with modernity ( p, 133).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Internal trade
- Individual enterprise
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Ethnosociology
- Behavior toward non-relatives
- Buying and selling
- 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
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1940-1992
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- New York State, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Marc A. Olshan
- For bibliographical references see document 20: [Kraybill and Olshan]
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 94013668
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Amish