Author: Mark Richard Schurr
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Category : LaGrange County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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An Archaeological Survey of Lagrange County, Indiana
Author: Mark Richard Schurr
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Category : LaGrange County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Category : LaGrange County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Shipshewana
Author: Dorothy O. Pratt
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253023564
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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A cultural history of a northern Indiana Amish community and its success in maintaining itself and resisting assimilation into the larger culture. While most books about the Amish focus on the Pennsylvania settlements or on the religious history of the sect, this book is a cultural history of one Indiana Amish community and its success in resisting assimilation into the larger culture. Amish culture has persisted relatively unchanged primarily because the Amish view the world around them through the prism of their belief in collective salvation based on purity, separation, and perseverance. Would anything new add or detract from the community’s long-term purpose? Seen through this prism, most innovation has been found wanting. Founded in 1841, Shipshewana benefited from LaGrange County’s relative isolation. As Dorothy O. Pratt shows, this isolation was key to the community’s success. The Amish were able to develop a stable farming economy and a social structure based on their own terms. During the years of crisis, 1917–1945, the Amish worked out ways to protect their boundaries that would not conflict with their basic religious principles. As conscientious objectors, they bore the traumas of World War I, struggled against the Compulsory School Act of 1921, negotiated the labyrinth of New Deal bureaucracy, and labored in Alternative Service during World War II. The story Pratt tells of the postwar years is one of continuing difficulties with federal and state regulations and challenges to the conscientious objector status of the Amish. The necessity of presenting a united front to such intrusions led to the creation of the Amish Steering Committee. Still, Pratt notes that the committee’s effect has been limited. Crisis and abuse from the outer world have tended only to confirm the desire of the Amish to remain a people apart, and lends a special poignancy to this engrossing tale of resistance to the modern world. “In this careful community study, Pratt (a professor and assistant dean at Notre Dame) analyzes the tension between assimilation and cultural distinctiveness among the northern Indiana Amish in the 19th and 20th centuries. . . . A worthy case study of resistance to change.” —Publishers Weekly
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253023564
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A cultural history of a northern Indiana Amish community and its success in maintaining itself and resisting assimilation into the larger culture. While most books about the Amish focus on the Pennsylvania settlements or on the religious history of the sect, this book is a cultural history of one Indiana Amish community and its success in resisting assimilation into the larger culture. Amish culture has persisted relatively unchanged primarily because the Amish view the world around them through the prism of their belief in collective salvation based on purity, separation, and perseverance. Would anything new add or detract from the community’s long-term purpose? Seen through this prism, most innovation has been found wanting. Founded in 1841, Shipshewana benefited from LaGrange County’s relative isolation. As Dorothy O. Pratt shows, this isolation was key to the community’s success. The Amish were able to develop a stable farming economy and a social structure based on their own terms. During the years of crisis, 1917–1945, the Amish worked out ways to protect their boundaries that would not conflict with their basic religious principles. As conscientious objectors, they bore the traumas of World War I, struggled against the Compulsory School Act of 1921, negotiated the labyrinth of New Deal bureaucracy, and labored in Alternative Service during World War II. The story Pratt tells of the postwar years is one of continuing difficulties with federal and state regulations and challenges to the conscientious objector status of the Amish. The necessity of presenting a united front to such intrusions led to the creation of the Amish Steering Committee. Still, Pratt notes that the committee’s effect has been limited. Crisis and abuse from the outer world have tended only to confirm the desire of the Amish to remain a people apart, and lends a special poignancy to this engrossing tale of resistance to the modern world. “In this careful community study, Pratt (a professor and assistant dean at Notre Dame) analyzes the tension between assimilation and cultural distinctiveness among the northern Indiana Amish in the 19th and 20th centuries. . . . A worthy case study of resistance to change.” —Publishers Weekly
La Grange County Sewer District Sanitary Sewer Construction [MI,IN]
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Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Languages : en
Pages : 326
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A Study in Cultural Persistence
Author: Dorothy Ann Overstreet Pratt
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Category : Amish
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Category : Amish
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Archaeology of Eastern North America
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1786
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1786
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Prehistoric Antiquities of Indiana
Author: Eli Lilly
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
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February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index
Publications of the Indiana Geological Survey, State of Indiana, Department of Public Works, Conservation Department, Division of Geology
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Indiana University - Bloomington Summaries of Ongoing Research
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Category : Research
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Category : Research
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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