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Golden memories: remembering life in a Mormon village
Nearly everything imaginable : the everyday life of Utah's Mormon pioneers • Provo • Published In 1999 • Pages: 47-74
By: Walker, Ronald W. (Ronald Warren).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study is based on biographies, sketches, and questionnaire responses of Utah's surviving pioneers collected in the 1930s and 1940s by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration and Utah Writers' Project. It portrays pioneer communalism in aid given to newcomers, sharing of resources, nursing the sick, cooperative work teams, and holiday celebrations. In the author’s opinion, the social bonding of the time turned hard days into good ones.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Historical and archival research
- External migration
- Labor and leisure
- Rest days and holidays
- Dance
- Visiting and hospitality
- Medical care
- Adolescent activities
- 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.
- Historian
- 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; 2012
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1935-1943 (source material)
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1850-1900
- 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
- Ronald W. Walker
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 98058057
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mormons