Description
Tracing Amish settlement in New York from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner draws on more than thirty years of participant-observation, interviews, and archival research to introduce the Amish to their non-Amish neighbors. In the last decade, New York State has had the fastest-growing Amish population. This work highlights the diversity of Amish settlement in New York State and the contribution of New York's Amish to the state's rich cultural heritage.
The second edition of New York Amish updates settlement areas to acknowledge recently established communities and to demonstrate the impact of growth, schism, and migration on existing settlements. In addition, chapters treating external and internal challenges to Amish settlement and the challenges Amish settlement poses to neighboring non-Amish communities have been updated, and a new chapter looks to the future of New York's Amish. All maps have been updated, and a new map showing all of New York's Amish communities has been added.Author: Karen M. Johnson-Weiner
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 05/01/2017
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9781501707605
ISBN10: 1501707604
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD,
- Religion | Christianity | Amish
- Travel | United States | Northeast | Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, PA)
About the Author
Karen M. Johnson-Weiner is Professor of Anthropology at SUNY Potsdam. She is author of Train Up a Child: Old Order Amish and Mennonite Schools.