Item Detail
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26004
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11
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English
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Playing Lamanite : Ecstatic Performance of American Indian Roles In Early Mormon Ohio
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Journal of Mormon History
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July 2015
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41
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3
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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131-166
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At revivalistic Mormon meetings on Ohio's Western Reserve in late 1830 and early 1831, Mormon converts ecstatically acted out Book of Mormon promises concerning the "Lamanites." Some of these performances depicted classic missionary fantasies. Actors climbed atop stumps and fences to harangue imaginary Indian audiences in what they believed were authentic native languages revealed through the gift of tongues. They then guided imaginary converts into the waters of baptism. Other performances dramatized standard white fears of Indian cruelty and violence. Actors tomahawked, scalped, and disemboweled invisible foes in an epitome of the imminent apocalyptic fate of unconverted white Americans. [From the article]
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