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1 online resource (604 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Utah Mormons / Richard Dorson -- The Mormon landscape : definition of an image in the American west / Richard V. Francaviglia -- The beehive in Utah folk art / Hal Cannon -- Hay derricks of the Great Basin and Upper Snake River Valley addendum / Austin E. Fife and James M. Fife -- Mormon gravestones : a folk expression of identity and belief / Carol Edison -- A Mormon from the cradle to the grave / Austin E. and Alta Fife -- Now that I've kissed the ground you walk on : a look at gender in creative date invitations / Kristi Bell Young -- Made in heaven : marriage confirmation narratives among Mormons / George H. Schoemaker -- Nameways in Latter-day Saint history, custom, and folklore / Eric A. Eliason -- The beehive buffet / Anne F. Hatch -- Early Mormon "magic" : insights from folklore and from literature / David A. Allred -- Freeways, parking lots, and ice cream stands : the Three Nephites in contemporary society / William A. Wilson -- Transformations of power : Mormon women's visionary narratives / Margaret K. Brady -- Narratives of personal revelation among Latter-day Saints / Tom Mould -- The great and dreadful day : Mormon folklore of the apocalypse / Susan Peterson -- Fate and the persecutors of Joseph Smith : transmutations of an American myth / Richard C. Poulsen -- Pioneers and recapitulation in Mormon popular historical expression / Eric A. Eliason -- Orrin Porter Rockwell : the modern Samson / Gustive O. Larson -- The ballad of the "Mountain Meadows massacre" / J. Barre Toelken -- Portraits in song : gleanings from the Brigham Young folk song cycle / Jill Terry Rudy -- As the saints go marching by : modern jokelore concerning Mormons / Jan Harold Brunvand -- Sanpete County humor : the tales and the tellers / Edward A. Geary -- For time and eternity : BYU coed jokes and the seriousness of Mormon humor / Steve Siporin -- Hierarch and mule-skinner : a selection from Mormon country / Wallace Stegner -- On being human : the folklore of Mormon missionaries / William A. Wilson -- Gringo jeringo : anglo Mormon missionary culture in Bolivia / David Knowlton -- "Of course, in Guatemala, bananas are better" : exotic and familiar eating experiences of Mormon missionaries / Jill Terry Rudy -- Mormonism, the Maori, and cultural authenticity / Grant Underwood. |
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Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Mormon Church -- Folklore.
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Mormons -- Folklore.
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Electronic books.
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Eliason, Eric A. (Eric Alden), 1967-
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Mould, Tom, 1969-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Latter-day lore : Mormon folklore studies. Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2013] 591 pages 9781607812845 (DLC) 2013025402 |
| ISBN |
9781607812845 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9781607812852 (electronic bk.) |
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