|
David Weaver-Zercher. The Amish in the American Imagination.(Book Review)
From:
Utopian Studies
| Date:
March 22, 2002| Author:
Webber, Philip E.
| COPYRIGHT 2002 Society for Utopian Studies. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
|
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 2001. xv + 280 pp. $39.95.
THOUGH THIS BOOK tells us many interesting things about the Amish in America, it tells us much more about the meaning ascribed to them by others, and especially about the paradoxical polarity of public opinion that alternately, and indeed often simultaneously, identifies them as examples of virtue and community cohesiveness worthy of emulation, and as clannish hypocrites whose vices are despicable by any reasonab...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research
|
The Amish in the American Imagination.(Book Review)
Church History
; ... researched and engaging book, The Amish in American Imagination, David Weaver-Zercher supports what cultural anthropologists ... which Weaver-Zercher explores how Americans have domesticated the Amish, that is, how they have imagined ... Amish way of life ... .
|
