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Desert Patriarchy : Mormon and Mennonite Communities in the Chihuahua Valley
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Tucson
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University of Arizona Press
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"In writing this book, I adopted the ethnographic technique of vividly representing the natives' voices and the creative images and symbols of their lifestyle and perspectives. I am posing here as the interpreter of the culture, offering my own vision of what I saw based on my experiences with the natives. I, too, am examining the ancestral roots of contemporary Mormon culture, in this case as it plays out on the stage of the Chihuahuan Desert of northern Mexico. I also use the self-reflective "I" to help the reader understand the components of the communities I studies and the factors involved in their adaptation to desert life. I seek, in this way, to explore human behavior in its real physical and cultural environment - in this case, the Chihuahuan landscape - as part naturalist, part anthropologist, and above all, part native. For I am a desert rat too." [Author]
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