Latter-day lore : Mormon folklore studies /

Latter-day lore : Mormon folklore studies / edited and with introductions by Eric A. Eliason and Tom Mould. - Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Utah Mormons / The Mormon landscape : definition of an image in the American west / The beehive in Utah folk art / Hay derricks of the Great Basin and Upper Snake River Valley addendum / Mormon gravestones : a folk expression of identity and belief / A Mormon from the cradle to the grave / Now that I've kissed the ground you walk on : a look at gender in creative date invitations / Made in heaven : marriage confirmation narratives among Mormons / Nameways in Latter-day Saint history, custom, and folklore / The beehive buffet / Early Mormon "magic" : insights from folklore and from literature / Freeways, parking lots, and ice cream stands : the Three Nephites in contemporary society / Transformations of power : Mormon women's visionary narratives / Narratives of personal revelation among Latter-day Saints / The great and dreadful day : Mormon folklore of the apocalypse / Fate and the persecutors of Joseph Smith : transmutations of an American myth / Pioneers and recapitulation in Mormon popular historical expression / Orrin Porter Rockwell : the modern Samson / The ballad of the "Mountain Meadows massacre" / Portraits in song : gleanings from the Brigham Young folk song cycle / As the saints go marching by : modern jokelore concerning Mormons / Sanpete County humor : the tales and the tellers / For time and eternity : BYU coed jokes and the seriousness of Mormon humor / Hierarch and mule-skinner : a selection from Mormon country / On being human : the folklore of Mormon missionaries / Gringo jeringo : anglo Mormon missionary culture in Bolivia / "Of course, in Guatemala, bananas are better" : exotic and familiar eating experiences of Mormon missionaries / Mormonism, the Maori, and cultural authenticity / Richard Dorson -- Richard V. Francaviglia -- Hal Cannon -- Austin E. Fife and James M. Fife -- Carol Edison -- Austin E. and Alta Fife -- Kristi Bell Young -- George H. Schoemaker -- Eric A. Eliason -- Anne F. Hatch -- David A. Allred -- William A. Wilson -- Margaret K. Brady -- Tom Mould -- Susan Peterson -- Richard C. Poulsen -- Eric A. Eliason -- Gustive O. Larson -- J. Barre Toelken -- Jill Terry Rudy -- Jan Harold Brunvand -- Edward A. Geary -- Steve Siporin -- Wallace Stegner -- William A. Wilson -- David Knowlton -- Jill Terry Rudy -- Grant Underwood.



9781607812852


Mormons--Folklore.


Electronic Books.

GR105 / .L388 2013