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- From: buchignani@hg.uleth.ca
- Subject: Re: Hutterites Today
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.211428.21168@honte.uleth.ca>
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- Organization: University of Lethbridge
- References: <1993Jan2.234908.3086@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 21:14:28 GMT
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- Hutterites continue to thrive; there are about 30,000 today, 2/3rds
- in Canada, 1/3 in the U.S. With the qualification that the book
- you read probably (as most) provided you with a highly idea
- image of the Hutterites, they have tended to maintain more or
- less what they want of that life, and have changed the rest.
- Again, with the qualification that colonies are independent, and
- hence diverse, they remain communal, rural-based, etc.
-
- There are (by their standards) some rather rapid changes going on re:
- more individualized consumer culture, and for men, a greater latitude
- in dress and behaviour; Thursdays around here (their traditional
- coming to town day) the malls are awash with them...
- Norm Buchignani/University of Lethbridge/BUCHIGNANI@HG.ULETH.CA
- "If we have been accustomed to deplore the spectacle...of a workman occupied
- during his whole life in nothing else but the making of knife-handles or pins'
- heads, we may find something quite as lamentable in the intellectual class, in
- the exclusive employment of a human brain in resolving some equations, or in
- classifying insects. [This] occasions a miserable indifference about the
- general course of human affairs, as long as there are equations to solve and
- pins to manufacture." Auguste Comte
-