essay
Early Mormon lifestyles: or the saints as human beings
restoration movement: essays in Mormon history • Lawrence, Kansas • Published In 1973 • Pages: 273-305
By: Bitton, Davis.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
By drawing on letters, diaries, and journals of the period in describing such basic dimensions of life as place, shelter, food, and family, the author provides a picture of the Mormon lifestyle from 1830 to the turn of the century. Topics covered include the geographical framework and frequency of movement, dwellings, diet, family life and household structure, courtship and marriage, sickness and death and ideas about medicine, curing and doctors, work and play, religious worldview and beliefs about the imminence of the Second Coming, and church services.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Diet
- Dwellings
- Dance
- Sodalities
- Polygamy
- Medical personnel
- Organized ceremonial
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- 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
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Martin Malone ; 1978
- 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
- 1830-1891
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, and Utah, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Davis Bitton
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mormons