Investigates the social, political, educational, cultural, and economic structure of the Hutterites whose rigid religious communes isolate them from contemporary society

The Hutterites in North America (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)

Politics & Social Sciences

Hostetler, John Andrew

Social Sciences

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt School

This case study in cultural anthropology focuses on the day-to-day living patterns of the Hutterites, a German-dialect-speaking Christian sect whose members live communally in the Great Plains of the United States and Canada. The authors describe the Hutterite belief system and how it minimizes aggression and dissension, and protects the members against the outside world. Features: * Hutterites' core social and personal values - nonaggression, selflessness and humility - are a challenge to the central North American mainstream values of achivevement, exploitation and aggression. * Hutterite education of their young, a primary concern of all Hutterite colonies, is an example of how successful education maintains community. * The Hutterites have lived with prejudice since their beginnings four and one half centuries ago, and young Hutterite men who refused military service in North America were persecuted inhumanely as recently as World War I. * John Hostetler, of Old Order Amish parents and an internationally known expert on communal societies in the United States and Canada, was readily accepted by the closeknit Hutterite community, and Gertrude Huntington was accepted by the colony with which she and her family lived as they conformed to Hutterite norms.

The Hutterites in North America, (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)

Huntington, Gertrude Enders

Religion & Spirituality

Holt; Rinehart; Winston

This case study describes a way of life where families are still stable, people live with a high sense of communal obligation, men and women work with their hands, one hears the clop of horses' hoofs rather than the whine of tires, and the school and the community are joined. --From the Foreword

Children in Amish Society: Socialization and Community Education (Case Studies in Education and Culture)

holt,rinehart,and winston inc

Communitarian Societies (Basic Anthropology Units)

Politics & Government

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

Amish Life

Herald Press

Discusses the history, education, culture, religious beliefs, and social customs of the Mennonite groups of the United States and Canada

Mennonite Life

Herald Pr

The Hutterian Brethren, or Hutterites, live in collective agricultural colonies. Of scores of attempts to establish communal societies, the Hutterites are the only group in North America that has managed to achieve stability and prosperity.

Hutterite Life

John A. Hostetler explains the views and lifestyles of the Amish under such headings as preaching services, family and community, Amish economy, language, folk art and beauty, courting, weddings, and horse and buggy travel. Over 760,000 of earlier editions of this booklet have been sold. Now this completely revised edition maintains the qualities that have made The Amish popular for a generation while updating the text and photos.

The Amish

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