Abstract
The historian Rod Janzen and the anthropologist Max Stanton have been researching and writing about Hutterites for a quarter century. They have left no stone unturned and no Hutterite colony unvisited. The depth of their research and the breadth of their experience are clear in this book, which will long serve as the definitive and essential work on the Hutterites. Janzen and Stanton describe Hutterite beginnings as a communitarian version of Anabaptism in sixteenth-century central Europe. After centuries of periodic persecution and migration in Eastern Europe, some 1,274 Hutterites from Ukraine settled in the Dakota Territory between 1874 and 1880. In the early twenty-first century, there are nearly 500 colonies with almost 50,000 residents. Hutterites live in South Dakota, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, and Washington in the United States, and southern Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta in Canada, along with one colony in Japan and one in Nigeria (an excellent map appears on page 10).
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