The Riddle of Amish Culture (Center Books in Anabaptist Studies)

by Donald B . Kraybill (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2001

  $28.58

  In addition, he includes a new chapter describing Amish recreation and social gatherings, and he applies the concept of social capitalto his sensitive and penetrating interpretation of how the Amish have preserved their social networks and the solidarity of their community.

• Used

  Paperback
  1989

  $3.47

  In The Riddle of Amish Culture Kraybill finds the Amish eager to answer our questions. (Some even tell what they thought of the film Witness. ) But they also have questions for us. Why, they ask, do we shut our aging parents out of our houses - and put them in institutions we call home? Why do we move away from the towns and families we love in pursuit of jobs we hate. And why do we need weapons so powerful they could one day destroy us all - Amish and English alike? The Riddle of Amish Culture draws us into conversations across a cultural fence with a people as remote as the seventeenth century and as close to home as that blacktop road off the next Interstate exit.