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English
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Juanita Brooks and Family Narratives
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Honoring Juanita Brooks : A Compilation of 30 Annual Presentations from the Juanita Brooks Lecture Series, 1984-2014
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St. George, UT
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Dixie State University
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179-208
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In three ways Juanita Brooks helped prepare the soil for the author as a folklorist... "First, she approached the materials she gathered and studied from an unabashed humanistic point of view, attempting always to focus not just of the facts of history, but also on truths of the human heart. Second, she gathered those materials not just, or even primarily, from the famous and powerful but from common, ordinary people like you and me - from early manuscripts and journals to accounts of the folk practices of Mormon midwives. Third, in autobiographical works like Quicksand and Cactus, she brought vividly to life the family of her youth and the community of Bunkerville in which the family lived..." [From the text]