Program

Research Programs: State and Local and Regional Studies

Period of Performance

9/1/1977 - 8/31/1979

Funding Totals

$57,355.84 (approved)
$57,355.84 (awarded)


Ethnography of the Amish

FAIN: RS-*0870-77

Temple University (Philadelphia, PA 19122-6117)
John A. Hostetler (Project Director: February 1977 to October 1990)

To produce a definitive ethnography on the Old Order Amish by assembling a complete bibliography, visiting archives and original sites in Europe, and conducting observations and interviews in North America. Project will explain how certain ethnic communities have responded to modernization.