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Latter-day lore : Mormon folklore studies / edited and with introductions by Eric A. Eliason and Tom Mould.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Latter Day Saint churches--Folklore.
- Latter Day Saint churches.
- Latter Day Saints--Folklore.
- Latter Day Saints.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (604 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Latter-day Lore gathers nearly thirty seminal works in Mormon folklore scholarship from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century to the present in order to highlight the depth, breadth, and richness of that scholarship.
- Contents:
- Utah Mormons / Richard Dorson
- The Mormon landscape : definition of an image in the American west / Richard V. Francaviglia
- The beehive in Utah folk art / Hal Cannon
- Hay derricks of the Great Basin and Upper Snake River Valley addendum / Austin E. Fife and James M. Fife
- Mormon gravestones : a folk expression of identity and belief / Carol Edison
- A Mormon from the cradle to the grave / Austin E. and Alta Fife
- Now that I've kissed the ground you walk on : a look at gender in creative date invitations / Kristi Bell Young
- Made in heaven : marriage confirmation narratives among Mormons / George H. Schoemaker
- Nameways in Latter-day Saint history, custom, and folklore / Eric A. Eliason
- The beehive buffet / Anne F. Hatch
- Early Mormon "magic" : insights from folklore and from literature / David A. Allred
- Freeways, parking lots, and ice cream stands : the Three Nephites in contemporary society / William A. Wilson
- Transformations of power : Mormon women's visionary narratives / Margaret K. Brady
- Narratives of personal revelation among Latter-day Saints / Tom Mould
- The great and dreadful day : Mormon folklore of the apocalypse / Susan Peterson
- Fate and the persecutors of Joseph Smith : transmutations of an American myth / Richard C. Poulsen
- Pioneers and recapitulation in Mormon popular historical expression / Eric A. Eliason
- Orrin Porter Rockwell : the modern Samson / Gustive O. Larson
- The ballad of the "Mountain Meadows massacre" / J. Barre Toelken
- Portraits in song : gleanings from the Brigham Young folk song cycle / Jill Terry Rudy
- As the saints go marching by : modern jokelore concerning Mormons / Jan Harold Brunvand
- Sanpete County humor : the tales and the tellers / Edward A. Geary
- For time and eternity : BYU coed jokes and the seriousness of Mormon humor / Steve Siporin
- Hierarch and mule-skinner : a selection from Mormon country / Wallace Stegner
- On being human : the folklore of Mormon missionaries / William A. Wilson
- Gringo jeringo : anglo Mormon missionary culture in Bolivia / David Knowlton
- "Of course, in Guatemala, bananas are better" : exotic and familiar eating experiences of Mormon missionaries / Jill Terry Rudy
- Mormonism, the Maori, and cultural authenticity / Grant Underwood.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-60781-285-1
- OCLC:
- 862077881
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