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English
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As the Saints Go Marching By : Modern Jokelore Concerning Mormons
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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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360-368
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In this article the author wants to break some new ground in the study of modern traditions surrounding Utah Mormons in order to demonstrate as a basis for further studies that this folklore is not made up just of surviving “relics,” that not all of it is “good-natured,” that some comes from within the group as well as from outside, and that other themes than the sexual predominate. His emphasis will be on the neglected area of contemporary jokelore concerning Mormons; by “jokelore” the author means all kinds of modern jesting lore that have become traditional, whatever their form or type. His examples were collected largely in Salt Lake City within the past two years, partly by his students. [From the text]