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By Susan L. Trollinger
More than 19 million travelers flock to Amish state every year, drawn by means of the chance to glimpse "a larger time" and the old fashioned great thing about picturesque farmland and hand made quilts. What they might locate, even though, are elaborately themed city facilities, outlet department stores, or perhaps a water park. Susan L. Trollinger explores this confusing incongruity, exhibiting that Amish tourism is something yet simple and simple.
Selling the Amish takes readers on a digital journey of 3 such vacationer locations in Ohio’s Amish kingdom, the world’s biggest Amish payment. Trollinger examines the visible rhetoric of those uniquely themed places—their structure, inside decor, even their item and souvenirs—and explains how those beneficial properties create a environment and a narrative that brings travelers again yr after year.
This compelling tale is, Trollinger argues, partially legitimized through the Amish themselves. To americans confronted with anxieties approximately sleek lifestyles, being close to the Amish lifestyle is reassuring. The Amish appear to have escaped the frenzy of up to date lifestyles, the confusion of gender relatives, and the lack of ethnic historical past. whereas the Amish means helps the idealized adventure of those vacationer locations, it additionally increases strong questions. travelers might want a existence simple by way of know-how, yet may they be prepared to force round in horse-drawn buggies with a view to in achieving it?
Trollinger's solutions to big questions in her interesting examine of Amish nation tourism are guaranteed to problem readers’ figuring out of this remarkable cultural phenomenon.
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