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Amish cottage industries as Trojan horseessay 1994 • Olshan, Marc Alan
Amish • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
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 cott...Modernity, the folk society, and the Old Order Amishessay 1994 • Olshan, Marc Alan
Amish • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
For many years the Amish have been portrayed as a small folk society that follows traditional patterns of social life without making deliberate choices about their future. In this paper, Marc A. Olshan overturns such assumptions and argues that the A...Homespun bureaucracyessay 1994 • Olshan, Marc Alan
Amish • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
The conspicuous absence of formal organizations signals one of the remarkable ways in which the Amish have remained a separate people. Missing from their society are the centralized structures, agencies, professional bureaucrats, and policy manuals w...Conclusionessay 1994 • Olshan, Marc Alan
Amish • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
How should we view the Amish? Are they an irrelevant relic - a pre-Enlightenment society that stifles individual freedom and expression? Or have the Amish devised a morally superior way of life worthy of emulation? In this essay, Marc A Olshan sugges...Amish women and the feminist conundrumessay 1994 • Olshan, Marc Alan & Schmidt, Kimberly D.
Amish • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
Amish society is organized around preindustrial gender roles that for the most part have remained sheltered from the winds of feminism. At first glance Amish women appear to live under the domination of a male patriarchy legitimated by traditional re...Bibliographyessay 1994 • Kraybill, Donald B. & Olshan, Marc Alan
Amish • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
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