New PDF release: Saints Observed: Studies of Mormon Village Life, 1850-2005

By Howard M. Bahr

The such a lot whole review and review of Mormon village stories to be had, this quantity extends the canon twofold. First, it offers a wealthy composite view of nineteenth-century Mormon lifestyles within the West as noticeable via certified observers who didn't simply go through yet stopped and studied. moment, it connects that early protoethnography to scholarly Mormon village stories within the 20th century, exhibiting their right context within the thriving box of group stories. based on 9 well-known tourists’ debts of lifestyles one of the Mormons, together with Richard Burton, Elizabeth Kane, Howard Stansbury, John Gunnison, and Julius Benchley—Bahr’s quantity introduces those proficient observers, summarizes and analyzes their commentary, and constructs a holistic evaluate of Mormon village lifestyles. He concludes through tracing the increase and continuity of Mormon village stories within the 20th century, starting with Lowry Nelson’s 1923 examine in Escalante, Utah. Over the next 3 a long time, the style increased past Nelson and his scholars, turning into extra subtle and interdisciplinary; by way of the mid-1950s it was once a subfield in the revered area of group stories. Researchers persevered to check Mormon groups within the following a long time and into the twenty-first century.

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