Word: amish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jacob and his family are Old Order Amish. They belong to a community that lives at the edge of American society, with spiritual values rooted in Pennsylvania-Deutsch soil. Most of the 20,000 Old Order Amish living in Lancaster County are descended from the 200 German-Swiss farmers who immigrated there during the 18th century. The community has paid a price for its separateness: because the Amish forbid marriage outside the Old Order, centuries of inbreeding have afflicted them with certain genetic diseases that strike their young in alarming numbers...
...Visiting Professor of Folklore and American Civilization Simon J. Bronner, on loan from the University of Pennsylvania at Harrisburg, is turning the F&M spotlight closer to home-closer to his home, in fact, in Pennsylvania's Amish Country...
...Amish ride in cars but refuse to drive them...
These questions are posed and answered in The Riddle of Amish Culture, one of two books required for the course...
Using the Amish and Hasidim as case studies, Bronner's class will question the building of ethnic traditions in contemporary America; it will also explore the impact of such ethnic communities on tourism and gender...