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    Final Culture Research Paper: Amish Debra Bolin ANT 101 August 5‚ 2012 Ashford University Three scholarly research journals‚ ethnographies and ethnologies that I will be using regarding The Amish Culture are: Amish. (2010). In The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather guide.

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    THE AMISH COMMUNITY BY: Lori Burris Instructor’s Name: Chad Goings ANT 101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (AVL1237D) 10/15/12 The Amish are religious separatists who dress plainly and avoid many convinces of modern life that you may know. The Amish are known widely for horses and buggies for transportation‚ they came to America in the eighteenth century from Switzerland. They evolved out if the Mennonite groups coming from the Anabaptist tradition. The Anabaptists urged a return to

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    The Amish‚ who are also called "The Plain People" or Old Order Amish‚ originated in Switzerland in approximately 1525. They originated from a movement called the Anabaptist movement. Jacom Amman was the leader. This happened during the reformation in the16th Century Europe. They believed in holding on to traditions and keeping themselves separated from the world. He was stricter about this than other Anabaptists of that time. The Anabaptists were against the union of church and state and also

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    2. About the Amish society The Amish are a group of people who are descendants of 17-century Mennonite immigrants mainly from Europe. Mennonite is a Christian group related to Protestant but in many ways‚ extreme. Jacob Amman is the founder and the first leader of the Amish. He believed that who violates the law of Mennonite should be banished‚ and this somewhat extreme idea led to Jacob Amman’s separation from the Mennonite. Since then‚ Jacob and his followers declared themselves as a different

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    Survival of a Folk Culture: The Old Order Amish by Carol Ann Gillespie Texas State University: San Marcos San Marcos‚ Texas A folk culture is a small‚ self-reliant community that is technologically simple and traditional in nature. The term "folk culture" also refers to the artifacts of this community ’s material culture (such as tools‚ clothing‚ and houses) as well as the nonmaterial culture (traditions and institutions). This essay describes how one folk culture -- the Old Order

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    Amish community I think I wouldn’t have done anything different because I don’t think I would have known how to prepare myself. It’s like when you have never left a state before but you are leaving to go out of state. The first time I left the state ever I didn’t know what to do or think but it was a shock to see mountains and different weather. I think the only way to prepare yourself for a culture shock is to do a little research to prepare yourself to eat like they do‚ and see how they

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    The Amish Community: The Effects of Subsistence on Aspects of a Culture Tristin Bovee ANT 101 Ilda Jimenez y West October 29‚ 2012 The Amish Community: The Effects of Subsistence on Aspects of a Culture Any person who observes an Amish community may catch a glimpse of a lifestyle that looks as if it adheres to no modicum of logic. Why would a whole group of people choose to live without the technology that makes life so much easier? The answer is simple and uncomplicated; cultural preservation

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    Ethnography of the Amish Jason Fawks Mentor: Dr. Charles Jarvis Module 3A Ethnographic Paper July 2012 Introduction With the modernization of a large part of the world during the 20th century‚ almost all people‚ except for third world countries‚ have moved from an agrarian society to an industrialized one. There is one group of people‚ known as the Amish‚ who for religious and faith

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    The Amish and their ways Sierra Major ANT 101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Instructor: Michel Waller January 14‚2013 There are many cultures around and have different view as we do. People are all different and no one is alike. We all perform different beliefs and ideas. One of these cultures are the Amish. They live a different way of life than what we do or as myself. The Amish way of life has many interesting concepts

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    The old order Amish are an Anabaptist culture. This means the Amish believed in adult baptism instead of infant baptism like many other religions. According to Greska‚ there was a book found in many Amish homes describing how hundreds of Amish were brutally executed for their religious beliefs. Around 1693 the Amish separated themselves from the Mennonites because the Mennonites believed in shunning excommunicated members of the church. After the separation‚ the Amish traveled throughout many German

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