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This 3 page article analysis pertains to "'To Everyone Out There in Budget Land': The Narrative of Community in the International Amish Newspaper, The Budget" by Tabetha Adkins, an ethnographic study. The writer particularly focuses on how this article incorporates principles of collaboration. No other sources are cited.
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conducted into the literary practices of residents of the Amish community of Hanley, Ohio. The study specifically focuses on the role of The Budget, an Amish newspaper, in the lives
of community members and Adkinss analysis reveals how the newspaper is shaped by and reflects Anabaptist values. Adkinss methodology involved observations, but also the researcher conducted interviews, using an open-ended,
guided approach, with 25 Amish and Mennonite residents of both sexes (Adkins 53). This study describes a highly successful newspaper that is created as a collaborative effort by Amish
communities located throughout the world. Published weekly in Sugarcreek, Ohio, The Budget has two editions. The first edition is the "local" paper, which prints local, non-Amish news, and the second
edition, the "National Edition," publishes news that the subtitle proclaims pertains to "Amish-Mennonite Communities Throughout the Americas" (Adkins 53). It is this newspaper that arrives at the homes of Hanleys
Amish and Mennonite families every Thursday (Adkins 54). This newspaper has "no articles, stories, or photographs," but rather consists of letters, authored by members of each community, who are known
as "scribes" (Adkins 54). The scribes report the latest news from Anabaptist communities located in "34 American states, three Canadian provinces and eight foreign countries" (Adkins 54-55). Amish and
Mennonite beliefs eschew all forms of technology. Therefore, their community members are forbidden by their belief system to use telephones, email or any other technological means for keeping track of
the news in their communities. The residents whom Adkins interviewed indicated that the first letters they read are those from communities in which they used to live or those from
communities where family members live. The papers collaborative content offers readers a means for "preserving community" that extends to the Amish community as a whole (Adkins 59). The editors
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