TAILIEUCHUNG - Encyclopedia of World CulturesVolume I - NORTH AMERICA - I

Tự điển chuyên ngành nông nghiệp thế giới Vol1 - Bắc Mỹ - Vần I | Iglulik Inuit 155 for women and from ages twenty to twenty-six for men is the most important rite of passage for Hutterites. It signifies adult status is a prerequisite for marriage and often creates closer bonds between the now-adult children and their parents. Arts. Traditional crafts such as pottery making and decorative sewing have now largely disappeared though clothing style is an important indicator of Leut identity. Sports and dancing are virtually absent and individual hobbies tend toward productive activities such as electrical wiring. Singing is the central expressive activity. Hutterites sing in church at school at home and during group activities. There is a rich and varied repertoire of songs and hymns. Medicine. Medical care is largely free of religious content and physicians are routinely used. Hutterite chiropractors are used by both colony members and outsiders. The Hutterites have been the object of intense study by mental health researchers and display an unusually high incidence of affective psychoses and low incidence of schizophrenia when compared to other groups and the . population in general. The Hutterites also display a culture-specific disorder called Anfechtung characterized by a feeling of having sinned. Treatment is through talk with the preacher prayer and confession usually producing a cure. Death and Afterlife. Death is seen as the step leading to paradise for those who have lived a faithful life. Burial usually follows three days after the death and is preceded by a wake and an in-gathering of colony members and baptized members of other colonies. The communal life provides emotional support for the family of the deceased. Bibliography Bennett John A. 1967 . Hutterian Brethren The Agricultural Economy and Social Organization of a Communal People. Stanford Stanford University Press. Hostetler John A. 1974 . Hutterite Society. Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press. Hostetler John A. and Gertrude Huntington 1970 . The .

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