2017
DOI: 10.18061/1811/81076
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Seventy-Five Years of Amish Studies, 1942 to 2017: A Critical Review of Scholarship Trends (with an Extensive Bibliography)

Abstract: After 75 years, Amish studies has received no field reviews, an oversight I rectify using several citation analysis techniques. I offer criteria for defining Amish research, which results in 983 references. Amish studies has a very highly centralized core; the top one percent of cited references account for 20% of every citation in Amish studies, with Hostetler, Kraybill, Nolt, and Huntington dominating the top list. Few consolidated subareas exist, exceptions being language and health/population research. Ana… Show more

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“…Second, scholars must pay better attention to broader historical contexts and forces in which the Amish as a people developed and persisted. Third, scholars must properly situate their contributions within the broader goal of knowledge development, for example, theory proposals, critical tests, descriptive studies, and field reflections (Anderson :29–30).…”
Section: Research In a Post‐nwm Eramentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Second, scholars must pay better attention to broader historical contexts and forces in which the Amish as a people developed and persisted. Third, scholars must properly situate their contributions within the broader goal of knowledge development, for example, theory proposals, critical tests, descriptive studies, and field reflections (Anderson :29–30).…”
Section: Research In a Post‐nwm Eramentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Amish studies scholars have on average cited Kraybill in every fifth bibliographic entry. Riddle of Amish Culture (Kraybill ) alone is cited by 44 percent of every Amish studies publication since its release (Anderson ). Even works that do not directly cite K raybill adopt language characteristic of NWM (e.g., Hawley ).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Hence, I chaffed at the insider/outsider reference by Huntington as a desultory remark of little value for judging Schreiber's attempt to help others understand Amish society and culture. But this dichotomy is hardly a single instance; it has been a longstanding value judgment in Amish studies since the beginning and continuing to today (Anderson 2017a). I know one colleague, now well-published about the Amish in various peer-reviewed venues, who was simply told at the beginning of this individual's research that the individual should not get involved because that individual's background was not Anabaptist.…”
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