The riddle of Amish culture
By: Donald B. Kraybill.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Amish -- United States; Amish -- Canada; Amish -- Pennsylvania -- Lancaster County
Description: This book addresses questions such as: Why will the Amish ride in cars but refuse to drive them?; How can their old-fashioned farms turn a profit while many modern farms go broke?; Do they ever change their customs? Who decides, and how?; If they'll use pay phones, why not have a phone in the house?; and Why will they use electronic calculators but not computers?
Notes: Bibliography: p. 285-300.
Includes index.