The Amish Community: The Effects of Subsistence on Aspects of a Culture Tristin Bovee ANT 101 Ilda Jimenez y West October 29‚ 2012 The Amish Community: The Effects of Subsistence on Aspects of a Culture Any person who observes an Amish community may catch a glimpse of a lifestyle that looks as if it adheres to no modicum of logic. Why would a whole group of people choose to live without the technology that makes life so much easier? The answer is simple and uncomplicated; cultural preservation
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Question #1 How is intensive subsistence agriculture distinguished from extensive subsistence cropping? Why‚ in your opinion‚ have such different land use forms developed in separate areas of the warm‚ moist tropics? Intensive agriculture is the primary subsistence pattern of large-scale‚ populous societies. It results in much more food being produced per acre compared to other subsistence patterns. Beginning about 5‚000 years ago‚ the development of intensive farming methods became necessary as
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The Amish are a group of church abiding people‚ whose way of life is driven by their religion. There religion basically tells them that they must be separate from worldly sin to receive salvation. Every facet of their life has something to do with them keeping this way of life. There way of life ties in with their mode of subsistence. The Amish are horticulturist. “Horticulture is a non mechanized‚ non intensive form of plant cultivation performed non repetitively on a plot of land”(Nowak &Laird
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The Amish Tiffany Capehart ANT 101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Jennifer Hotzman 12/10/12 The Amish Community is very interesting to me. I enjoyed the research and all I have learned by writing this paper. I am going to write this paper on the Amish ways. This paper will include the Amish history‚ beliefs‚ economic status and their organization. Amish History The Amish (also called Amish Mennonites) are all members of an Anabaptist Christian denomination who are especially known
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reform-minded Mennonites began called‚ The Amish. Their simplicity lifestyle‚ ways of living and unique beliefs set them apart from other cultures. Evolving agriculturalists cultivating soil‚ producing crops‚ raising and hording livestock‚ classifying the Amish as Horticulturalists‚ is their identified primary way of subsistence. We‚ as Americans‚ primarily buy foods and handmade products from The Amish. As customers‚ it’s vital to know about The Amish way of living‚ traditions‚ and how they withstand
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The term subsistence agriculture refers to a self contained and self sufficient unit where most of the agricultural production is consumed and some may be sold in local market is sold. Characteristics of subsistence agriculture The main characteristics of traditional or subsistence agriculture in brief are as follows: (1) Land use . Traditional farms are very small usually only 1 to 3 hectares. The goods produced on these small farming units is used mainly for consumption
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Technology & the Amish The Amish are averse to any technology which they feel weakens the family structure. The conveniences that the rest of us take for granted such as electricity‚ television‚ automobiles‚ telephones and tractors are considered to be a temptation that could cause vanity‚ create inequality‚ or lead the Amish away from their close-knit community and‚ as such‚ are not encouraged or accepted in most orders. Most Amish cultivate their fields with horse-drawn machinery‚ live
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Who are the Amish? Many people around the world have no idea who or what the Amish culture is. Many countries or towns around the world have their differences and their own rules about their environment and things other people should respect from other countries‚ but most of them are not as strict as the Amish communities. The Amish sometimes referred to as Amish Mennonites‚ are a group of traditionalist Christian church fellowships that form a subgroup of the Mennonite churches. The Amish are known
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The Amish‚ who are also called "The Plain People" or Old Order Amish‚ originated in Switzerland in approximately 1525. They originated from a movement called the Anabaptist movement. Jacom Amman was the leader. This happened during the reformation in the16th Century Europe. They believed in holding on to traditions and keeping themselves separated from the world. He was stricter about this than other Anabaptists of that time. The Anabaptists were against the union of church and state and also
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2. About the Amish society The Amish are a group of people who are descendants of 17-century Mennonite immigrants mainly from Europe. Mennonite is a Christian group related to Protestant but in many ways‚ extreme. Jacob Amman is the founder and the first leader of the Amish. He believed that who violates the law of Mennonite should be banished‚ and this somewhat extreme idea led to Jacob Amman’s separation from the Mennonite. Since then‚ Jacob and his followers declared themselves as a different
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