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English
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Saints Observed : Studies of Mormon Village Life, 1850-2005
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Salt Lake City, UT
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The University of Utah Press
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The most complete overview and assessment of Mormon village studies available, this volume extends the canon twofold. First, it presents a rich composite view of nineteenth-century Mormon life in the West as seen by qualified observers who did not just pass through but stopped and studied. Second, it connects that early protoethnography to scholarly Mormon village studies in the twentieth century, showing their proper context in the thriving field of community studies. Based mostly on nine famous travelers' accounts of life among the Mormons, including Richard Burton, Elizabeth Kane, Howard Stansbury, John Gunnison, and Julius Benchley--Bahr's volume introduces these talented observers, summarizes and analyzes their observation, and constructs a holistic overview of Mormon village life. He concludes by tracing the rise and continuity of Mormon village studies in the twentieth century, beginning with Lowry Nelson's 1923 research in Escalante, Utah. Over the following three decades, the genre expanded beyond Nelson and his students, becoming more sophisticated and interdisciplinary; by the mid-1950s it was a subfield within the respected arena of community studies. Researchers continued to study Mormon communities in the following decades and into the twenty-first century.
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Dixie Saints : Laborers in the Field
History, Nature, and Mormon Historiography
In a Rugged Land : Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange and the Three Mormon Towns Collaboration, 1953-1954
"There are Millions of Acres in Our State": Mormon Agrarianism and the Environmental Limits of Expansion
The Selected Letters of Juanita Brooks
UTAH : 800 : Christine Armbruster's Photo-Essay and the Continuing Documentation of Small-Town Utah -
Acculturation of Samoans in the Mormon Village of Laie, Territory of Hawaii
A Community Study of Social Change in Goshen
A Comparative Study of the Role of Values in Social Action in Two Southwestern Communities
A Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
A Forty-niner in Utah, With the Stansbury Exploration of Great Salt Lake : Letters and Journal of John Hudson, 1848-50
A Gentile Account of Life in Utah's Dixie, 1872-73
Agricultural Pioneering in the Virgin River Basin
A Historical Geography of Agriculture in the Upper Snake River Valley, Idaho
A Journey to Great Salt Lake City, with a Sketch of the History, Religion, and Customs of the Mormons, and an Introduction on The Religious Movement in the United States
Among the Mormons : Historic Accounts by Contemporary Observers
A Mormon Town : One Man's West
A Mormon Village : A Study in Rural Social Organization
An Expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah
A Social Survey of Escalante, Utah
A Study of the Religious Attitudes and Concepts of the People of Escalante, Utah, from 1876 to 1930
A Visit to Salt Lake : Being a Journey Across the Plains and a Residence in the Mormon Settlement at Utah.
A Winter with the Mormons : The 1852 Letters of Jotham Goodell
Belief and Behavior in a Mormon Town : Nineteenth Century St. George, Utah
Between Two Cultures : The Mormon Settlement of Star Valley, Wyoming
Castle Valley America : Hard Land, Hard-won Home
Community
Community Leadership on the Mormon Frontier
Dam that River! Ecology and Mormon Settlement in the Little Colorado River Basin
Demographic Transition in a Frontier Town : Manti, Utah, 1849-1948
Desert Saints : The Mormon Frontier in Utah
Ecological Stability and Community Diversity during Mormon Colonization of the Little Colorado River Basin
Ecological Succession and Mormon Colonization in the Little Colorado River Basin
Education, Work and Residency Dilemmas in Te Hauke, New Zealand : A Study of Cultural Values and Behavior in a Mormon Maori Village
Family Life and Rural Society in Spring City, Utah : The Basis of Order in a Changing Agrarian Landscape
Female Life Among the Mormons ; A Narrative of Many Years' Personal Experience
Finding Oneself Among the Saints : Thomas F. O'Dea, Mormon Intellectuals, and the Future of Mormon Orthodoxy
Forms and Methods of Early Mormon Settlement in Utah and the Surrounding Region, 1847-1877
For the Strength of the Hills : Imagining Mormon Country
From Cultural Traditions to National Trends : The Transition of Domestic Mormon Architecture in Cache Valley, Utah, 1860-1915
Gentile Impressions of Salt Lake City, Utah, 1849-1870
Golden Memories: Remembering Life in a
Mormon Village
Gold Rush Sojourners in Great Salt Lake City, 1849 and 1850
Great Basin Kingdom : An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
History of Mormon Settlements in Mexico and New Mexico
Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West
Individual and Community Development in a Mormon Community in Utah : With Implications for Community Development in India
Industrialization and Social Change : A Controlled Comparison of Two Utah Communities
Inventing Mormon Identity in Tonga
'I Was Called to Dixie' : The Virgin River Basin : Unique Experiences in Mormon Pioneering
Jewish and Mormon Agricultural Settlement in Western Canada : A Comparative Analysis
Life in a Village Society, 1877-1920
Maintaining Solidarity : A Look Back at the Mormon Village
Meadow, Millard County, Utah : The Geography of a Small Mormon Agricultural Community
Mormonism : Its Leaders and Designs
Mormon Settlement Patterns, 1830-1900
Mormon Settlements in the San Juan Basin of Colorado and New Mexico
Mormon Values : The Significance of a Religious Outlook for Social Action
My Summer in a Mormon Village
New Mexican Frontiers : A Social History of the Gallup Area, 1881-1901
On the Way to Somewhere Else : European Sojourners in the Mormon West, 1834-1930
People of Rimrock : A Study of Values in Five Cultures
Polynesian Saints : In-Between the Lived Religion of Polynesian Identities and Mormon Identities
Rebels and Relatives : The Mormon Foundation of Spring Glen, 1878-90
Reconsidering Solidarity in the Mormon Village
Religious Polity and Local Production : The Origins of a Mormon Town
Remembering Iosepa : History, Place, and Religion in the American West
Roots of Modern Mormonism
Saints in Sin City : Religion and Community Building in Twentieth-Century Las Vegas
Samoan Saints : Samoans in the Mormon Village of Laie, Hawaii
Settlement and Growth of the Gila Valley in Graham County as a Mormon Colony, 1879-1900
Settlement on the Little Colorado, 1873-1900 : A Study of the Processes and Institutions of Mormon Expansion
Settlement Processes in the Mormon Core Area, 1847-1890
Sinners and Saints : A Tour across the States, and Round them, with Three Months among the Mormons
Some Social and Economic Features of American Fork
Spring City : A Look at a Nineteenth-Century Mormon Village
Studies in Mormon History 1830-1997 : An Indexed Bibliography
Tale of Two Towns : The Social Dynamics of Eureka and Helper, Utah
The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California
The Development of Agricultural Villages in Southern Utah
The Economics of Sainthood : Religious Change among the Rimrock Navajos
The Effects of Geographical Position on Belief and Behavior in a Rural Mormon Village
The Founding and Development of Grantsville, Utah 1850-1950
The Harvard Five Cultures Values Study and Postwar Anthropology
The History of Salt Lake City and Its Founders
The Making of Saints : The Mormon Town as a Setting for the Study of Cultural Change
The Middle Virgin River Valley, Utah : A Study in Cultural Growth and Change
The Mormon Colonies in Chihuahua after the 1912 Exodus
The Mormon Colonies in Mexico
The Mormon Culture Region : Strategies and Patterns in the Geography of the American West, 1847-1964
The Mormon Invasion and Settlement of the Upper Snake River Plain in the 1880s : The Case of Lewisville, Idaho
The Mormon Landscape : Existence, Creation, and Perception of a Unique Image in the American West
The Mormons
The Mormons
The Mormon Settlement in San Bernardino, 1851-1857
The Mormons, or Latter-day Saints : A Contemporary History
The Mormons, or Latter-day Saints, in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake
The Mormon Townsite as Applied to Streets and Land Use in Navajo and Apache Counties, Arizona
The Mormon Vanguard Brigade of 1847 : Norton Jacob's Record
The Mormon Village : Analysis of a Settlement Type
The Mormon Village : A Pattern and Technique of Land Settlement
The Mormon Village : A Study in Social Origins
The Mormon Village Family
The Mormon Village : Genesis and Antecedents of the City of Zion Plan
The Mormon Village in Transition : Richfield, Utah as a Case Study, 1910-1930
The Social Organization of the Mormon Village
The Utah Farm Village of Ephraim
Thomas F. O'Dea, the Harvard Values Project, and the Mormons : Early Lessons on Ethnography Among the Literate
Twelve Mormon Homes Visited in Succession on a Journey Through Utah to Arizona
Utah in Nevada : Expected and Aberrant Landscapes in the Mormon Village of Panaca, Nevada