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FormatBook Whole
Author, MonographicKraybill, Donald B.
Title, MonographicThe riddle of Amish culture
Place of PublicationBaltimore, MD
PublisherJohn Hopkins University Press
Date of Publication1989
Extent of Work304
Address/AvailabilityOCLC 18162816
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ISBN0-8018-3682-4
AbstractThe Amish are one of America's most intriguing and puzzling communities. To the outsider, their habits and customs abound with contradictions. But the most intriguing puzzle of all is the secret of their survival in the twentieth century. How have these "plain folk" kept the modern world at bay? Donald Kraybill has lived and worked among the Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, home of America's oldest Amish community. The Amish were eager to answer his questions. His book draws us into conversation across a cultural fence with a people as remote as the seventeenth century and as close to home as that blacktop road off the next Interstate exit.
NotesCopies also in UW Library, WHS. Revised edition published 2001.
Call NumberMKI E 184 .M45 K73 1989
MKI TermsAmish -- Culture/ Lancaster County (Pa.)