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, 2014 An intimate portrait of the diverse music-making at the center of Amish faith and life.Singing occurs in nearly every setting of Amish life. It is a sanctioned pleasure that frames all Amish rituals and one that enlivens and sanctifies both routine and ...
Elder, D. Rose
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Crafting an Amish biomedical landscape
Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2020 Within their pluralistic system of health care, the Amish make medical decisions influenced by cultural practice: a call for adherents to separate themselves from the outside world and to yield to the group.
Martha King
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, 1994 Amish Morrell is a student in the Bachelors of Environmental Studies program at York University. He is exploring the use of photography in facilitating awareness of and communication around environmental issues.
Amish Morrell, Morrell, Amish
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Prevalence, control, and treatment of diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol in the Amish
BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care, 2020 Background The burden of diabetes and cardiovascular risk is not uniform across the USA, with much of this disparity tracking differences in socioeconomic status, cultural practices and lifestyle.
Shisi He +13 more
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The genetic architecture of Alzheimer disease risk in the Ohio and Indiana Amish
HGG Advances, 2022 Summary: Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia and is currently estimated to affect 6.2 million Americans. It ranks as the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, and the proportion of deaths due to AD has been increasing ...
Michael D. Osterman +23 more
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The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2014 Throughout much of their existence, the Amish remained relatively unknown and/or misunderstood by much of American society other than those who lived in areas with visible Amish communities. However, beginning in the second half of the twentieth century,
Joseph Harasta
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The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2014 "The Amish is a 500-some page university press-sized handbook that touches on a variety of topical areas. The book is the culmination of two and a half decades each of Kraybill’s, Johnson-Weiner’s, and Nolt’s work about the Amish.
Megan Bogden +3 more
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Mapping Myriad Positionalities in Amish Media Studies
The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2020 Within the United States popular and academic imaginaries, Amish/Mennonite identities tend to get flattened into a monolithic, anti-modern stereotype simultaneously fearful of information communication technology and yet titillated by their utility. This
Lars Stoltzfus-Brown
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Online Mapping Tools for Geolocating Amish Settlements
The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2015 This technical note demonstrates the value of using online mapping tools as a method of geolocating Amish settlements. Primarily using freely available Bing and Google maps and published lists of the addresses of Amish ministers, we geolocated 1,362 ...
Andrew Wilson +2 more
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, 2019 The Amish is a 500-some page university press-sized handbook that touches on a variety of topical areas. The book is the culmination of two and a half decades each of Kraybill’s, Johnson-Weiner’s, and Nolt’s work about the Amish.
Reschly, Steven +3 more
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