The Functionalist Problem in Kraybill’s Riddle of Amish Culture
Much of contemporary Amish scholarship manifests an implicit functionalist paradigm that harkens back to mid-20th-century social science. This perspective tends toward optimistic, even “Panglossian,” explanation of <em>traits</em>, in which everything that the Amish do or believe has a u...
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University of Akron
2017-06-01
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| Series: | The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/amishstudies/vol5/iss1/4 |