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Life in a Hutterite Colony Assignment
Read Donald Huffman's ethnography of Spring Prairie Hutterite Colony (found under Content) to answer Questions 2-8. Read Spring Prairie Dairy Heart of the Hutterite Colony to answer Questions 9-11.
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1. Donald Huffman used the sociological research method of participant observation to learn about the Hutterite culture. Review pages 43-50 in your textbook. What does it mean to conduct participant observation?
2. Huffman writes that the "norm of colony life is ‘selected isolation'." What does that mean?
3. The Hutterites "are the longest surviving experiment in ______________________ recorded in modern Western history."
4. In reviewing the history of the Hutterites, their severest persecutors were:
5. The Hutterite prescription for communal living is taken from what passage in the Bible?
6. The State of Minnesota mandated Hutterite children be educated to what level? Why is this of concern to Hutterite leadership?
7. Hutterites feel that the ideal size of a Hutterite community is about _________________ persons.
8. Huffman contended that the family structure exhibited at the colony was very critical to the colony's stability. Describe several aspects of what is typical of the family at Spring Prairie.
9. How many acres is the Spring Prairie Colony? Calculate how many acres that is per capita (per colony member).
10. How are the Hutterites similar to the Amish? How do the Hutterites differ from the Amish?
11. There are about ___________ Hutterite colonies scattered across Canada and the United States.
12. Reflect on what you have learned about the Hutterites. What element of Hutterite life do you think could be beneficial to your own life? Why?
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