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English
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Nameways in Latter-day Saint History, Custom, and Folklore
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Latter-day Lore : Mormon Folklore Studies
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Salt Lake City
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University of Utah Press
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134-166
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Mormon responses to U2’s The Joshua Tree are only one curious example of a complex system of name-giving and interpreting traditions that permeate Mormon culture. As of 2000, the Brigham Young University Folklore Archive Focused Field Project Collection includes eight focused ethnographies on Mormon naming practices that each includes ten to thirty legends and customs with accompanying analysis.5 The archive also houses 364 individual folklore collections on stories about place names alone.6 These numbers increase every semester as students turn in new material under the direction of BYU folklore professors. Ideally, students turn in transcribed lore that they have experienced as part of the natural flow of Mormon discourse and life. [From the text]