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Autore: | Farmer Jared <1974-> |
Titolo: | On Zion's mount [[electronic resource] ] : Mormons, Indians, and the American landscape / / Jared Farmer |
Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (472 p.) |
Disciplina: | 979.2/24 |
Soggetto topico: | Ute Indians - History |
Mormons - History | |
Frontier and pioneer life - Utah | |
Landscape assessment - United States | |
Indians in popular culture - United States | |
Soggetto geografico: | Timpanogos, Mount (Utah) History |
Utah Lake (Utah) History | |
Utah History | |
Great Basin Description and travel | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-439) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | pt. 1. Liquid antecedents -- Ute genesis, Mormon exodus -- Brigham Young and the famine of the Fish-Eaters -- The desertification of Zion -- pt. 2. Making a mountain : alpine play -- Rocky Mountain Saints -- Hiking into modern times -- Sundance and suburbia -- pt. 3. Marking a mountain : Indian play -- Renaming the land -- The rise and fall of a lover's leap -- Performing a remembered past. |
Sommario/riassunto: | On Zion's Mount shows how, paradoxically, the Mormons created their homeland at the expense of the local Indians-and how they expressed their sense of belonging by investing Mt. Timpanogos with "Indian" meaning. |
Titolo autorizzato: | On Zion's mount |
ISBN: | 0-674-04743-5 |
0-674-03671-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910455110903321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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