Consumption in Practice: Gift-giving as Mutual Aid in Amish Direct Homes Sales
The seemingly pastoral way of Amish living, manifested in their denial of modern technology, use of the horse-and-buggy, and community-sanctioned use of solid-color dress codes, does not invoke an image of the Amish as active consumers. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Lancaster County,...
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New York City College of Technology
2017-07-01
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| Online Access: | https://nanocrit.com/issues/issue11/Mutual-Aid-in-Nature-Consumption-in-Practice-Direct-Homes-Sales-as-a-form-of-gift-giving-in-Amish-Society |