Saints Observed: Studies of Mormon Village Life, 1850-2005

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The most complete overview and assessment of Mormon village studies to be had, this volume extends the canon twofold. First, it presents a wealthy composite view of nineteenth-century Mormon life within the West as seen by qualified observers who didn’t just pass through but stopped and studied. Second, it connects that early protoethnography to scholarly Mormon village studies within the twentieth century, showing their proper context within the thriving field of community studies. Based mostly on nine famous travelers’ accounts of life a few of the Mormons, including Richard Burton, Elizabeth Kane, Howard Stansbury, John Gunnison, and Julius Benchley—Bahr’s volume introduces these talented observers, summarizes and analyzes their statement, and constructs a holistic overview of Mormon village life. He concludes by tracing the upward push and continuity of Mormon village studies within the twentieth century, beginning with Lowry Nelson’s 1923 research in Escalante, Utah. Over the next three decades, the genre expanded beyond Nelson and his students, becoming more sophisticated and interdisciplinary; by the mid-1950s it was once a subfield inside the respected arena of community studies. Researchers continued to study Mormon communities within the following decades and into the twenty-first century.

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