Book
The Mormon village: a pattern and technique of land settlement
University of Utah Press • Salt Lake City • Published In 1952 • Pages:
By: Nelson, Lowry.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
first part discusses settlement patterns and their origin in a design for the City of Zion drawn up by early Mormon leaders. The second part presents case studies of six villages, three in Utah and three in Canada. Each village sketch contains settlement history, land use patterns, and a variety of sociological data (e.g., on housing, population trends, social institutions, material style of life, occupational specialization, education, etc.) drawn from the author's community surveys.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Demography
- Sociocultural trends
- Structures
- Settlement patterns
- Real property
- Standard of living
- Ecclesiastical organization
- Ethnosociology
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Sociologist
- Indigenous Person
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Eleanor C. Swanson ; 1977
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1923, 1925, 1927, 1930, 1950
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1849-1950
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Utah, United States; Alberta, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Lowry Nelson
- Category 361 has been used to cover settlement plans and discussions of pioneering, in addition to actual settlement patterns. Information on community organization for American Fork and Ephraim will be found in Categories 633 and 632 respectively, while similar information for smaller settlements will be found in Category 621.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-291)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 53000164
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Villages--Utah
- Land settlement--Utah
- Mormons--Utah