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Pioneer Mormon remedies
Western folklore • 16 • Published In 1957 • Pages: 153-162
By: Fife, Austin E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source, based on interviews and archival research, is a discussion of various kinds of Mormon folk remedies. The author covers a variety of folk remedies, from herbal concoctions to the use of metals and animal by-products as both preventive and curative medicines.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Pharmaceuticals
- Sickness
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Folklorist
- 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
- Marlene Martin ; 1978
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1946-1954
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1946-1954
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Utah, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Austin E. Fife
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 44049420
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mormons