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Culture Summary: Mormons
Human Relations Area Files • New Haven • Published In 2018 • Pages:
By: Swanson, Eleanor C., Skoggard, Ian A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a culture summary of the Mormon people. Information is presented on major aspects of Mormon culture.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Culture summary
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mormons
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2018
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2013
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1830-2008
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), British Columbia, Canada; Alexander Archipelago, southeastern Alaska
- NotesAdditional notes
- Eleanor C. Swanson and Ian Skoggard
- This culture summary is based on the article "Mormons," by Eleanor C. Swanson, in the Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Vol. 1, North America, Timothy O’Leary and David Levinson, eds. Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall & Co. 1991. Ian Skoggard updated population figures and wrote the sections on Industrial Arts, Trade, Kinship, Domestic Unit, Inheritance, Social Control, Arts, Medicine, and Death and Afterlife in January 2013.
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mormons