essay
Mormon childbearing
Anthropology of human birth • Philadelphia • Published In 1982 • Pages: 341-360
By: Stark, Sarah.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study of Mormon childbearing begins with an overview of Mormon history, Church organization, and kinship. The author also examines Mormon pro-natalist theology and its effect on fertility. The rest of the document is based on the author's own interviews with twenty women who discuss family values, teenage pregnancies, divorce, midwives, non-Mormon doctors, and observances before, during and after childbirth.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender status
- Polygamy
- Congregations
- Religious denominations
- Conception
- Childbirth
- Majority
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary 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
- no date given
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1847-1980
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Utah and Arizona, Unites States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Sarah Stark
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-360)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 81009776
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mormons