The Oklahoma Amish: Survival of an Ethnic Subculture.

Thompson, William E.

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ERIC Number: EJ260985

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1981-Dec

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The Oklahoma Amish: Survival of an Ethnic Subculture.

Thompson, William E.

Ethnicity, v8 n4 p476-87 Dec 1981

Focuses on ways that an Oklahoma Amish community creates, defines, maintains, and manipulates various symbols in an effort to deal with five problems that threaten the survival of Amish life: disenchanted youth, inroads of modernity, tourism, vanishing farm land, and governmental intervention. (Author/GC)

Descriptors: Amish, Community Attitudes, Community Change, Cultural Isolation, Political Attitudes, Rural Development, Social Change, Tourism, Youth Problems

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - General

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Oklahoma

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