Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-181) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : who are these people? -- The Old Orders : in the world but not of it -- Moving to Indiana -- Maintaining the Old Order -- Amish ethnicity : Pennsylvania Dutch and Swiss -- Community and family life -- Amish schools -- Amish work : farm, factory, carpentry, and cottage industry -- The Amish and their neighbors -- A different part of the patchwork : Indiana's Old Order Mennonites -- Afterword : the patchwork in the modern world.
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