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Film, Video The Two Worlds of the Pennsylvania Dutch

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Title

  • The Two Worlds of the Pennsylvania Dutch

Summary

  • The Pennsylvania Dutch culture, which is now over three centuries old and still evolving, is an American hybrid creation put together from Continental Europe, British Isles, and American building blocks in Southeastern Pennsylvania. While this culture is a unit linguistically, and in most other ways, it is divided down the middle by religion. The "two worlds" are those of the "Plain Dutch"--Amish, Mennonites, and Brethren--and the much larger world of the Lutheran and Recorded churches of the German and Swiss Reformates. Yoder illustrates the differences between these two cultural patterns with slides and ethnographic commentary.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • American Folklife Center, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2011-05-05.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Culture, Performing Arts
  • -  Religion
  • -  Cities, Towns
  • -  Culture, Folklife
  • -  Immigration, American Expansion

Notes

  • -  Classification: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation.
  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Classification: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion.
  • -  Classification: Social Sciences.
  • -  Don Yoder.
  • -  Recorded on 2011-05-05.
  • -  Librarians, Archivists.
  • -  Researchers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688665

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. The Two Worlds of the Pennsylvania Dutch. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-05, 2011. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688665/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & American Folklife Center, S. B. (2011) The Two Worlds of the Pennsylvania Dutch. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-05. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688665/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. The Two Worlds of the Pennsylvania Dutch. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-05, 2011. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021688665/>.