TY  - BOOK
AU  - Webber,Philip E.
TI  - Kolonie-Deutsch: life and language in Amana 
T2  - A Bur Oak book
SN  - 9781587298882
AV  - HX656.A4 W43 2009eb
U1  - 977.7/653 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Iowa City
PB  - University of Iowa Press
KW  - Amana Society
KW  - History
KW  - fast
KW  - German language
KW  - Dialects
KW  - Iowa
KW  - Allemand (Langue)
KW  - Dialectes
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - State & Local
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - General
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - gtlm
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface; Acknowledgments; Acknowledgments for the Paperback Edition; Introduction; 1 An Introductory Overview; 2 The Language Itself; 3 Amana That Was; 4 Language and Cultural Maintenance; Appendix: Results of a Questionnaire Survey; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
N2  - Founded as a communal society in 1855 by German Pietists, the seven villages of Iowa's Amana Colonies make up a community whose crafts, architecture, and institutions reflect-and to an extent perpetuate-the German heritage of earlier residents. In this intriguing blend of sociolinguistic research and stories from Colonists both past and present, Philip Webber examines the rich cultural and linguistic traditions of the Amanas. Although the Colonies are open to the outside world, particularly after the Great Change of 1932, many distinctive vestiges of earlier lifeways survive, including the loc
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