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Title The Amish: People of Preservation
Published [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file)
Summary The Amish continue to intrigue their technology-current neighbors by keeping alive ways and beliefs that many modern Americans regard as irretrievably lost to progress. In this colorful, award-winning documentary, newly revised and augmented, Mennonite historian John L. Ruth takes us sympathetically into the Amish mindset. Appreciative neighbors, a well-known physician, an artist, and respected scholar John A. Hostetler, author of Amish Society, provide insightful commentary on the survival of an alternative to the kind of world we have made. As the Amish increase exponentially in numbers, some migrate toward more open farmland. Those staying in centuries-old communities where the land is too crowded to farm have developed an amazing variety of cottage industries. But all changes are made very carefully, in order not to undermine the spiritual covenant and community
Analysis Anthropology
Documentaries
Religion and Philosophy
Notes Title from title frames
In Process Record
Performer Features: John Ruth, John A. Hostetler
Event Originally produced by Vision Video in 2003
Notes In English
Subject Streaming video.
Internet videos.
streaming video.
Streaming video.
Internet videos.
Genre/Form Internet videos.
Internet videos.
Vidéos sur Internet.
Form Streaming video
Author Video, Vision, filmmaker
Kanopy (Firm)