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Show Notes 1. The obvious debt here is to the teaching and published works of Henry Glassie. Glassie's intriguing model for folk-housing analysis has provided an excellent framework for revising our perception of the Mormon architectural landscape. My thanks also to Peter Goss and Jan Shipps for valuable comments concerning the content of this essay. 2. A listing of works dealing with the material folk culture of Utah can be found in William A. Wilson's "A Bibliography of Studies in Mormon Folklore," Utah Historical Quarterly AA, no. 4 (Fall 1976): 393-94. 3. One folklorist has written that Mormon houses "embody the same virtues of solidity, simplicity, and practicality that characterized the Saints themselves." See Jan Harold Brunvand, "The Architecture of Zion," The American West 13, no. 2 (March-April 1976) :29. 4. David Winburn, "The Early Houses of Utah: A Study of Techniques and Materials" (Master's thesis, University of Utah, 1952), pp. 1-2. 5. See Henry Glassie, "Artifacts: Folk, Popular, Imaginary, and Real," in Icons of Popular Culture, ed. Marshall Fishwick and Ray B. Browne (Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1970), pp. 110-11; and John A.Kouwenhoven, The Arts in Modern American Civilization (1948; reprint ed., New York: W. W. Norton, 1967), p. 3. 6. Cindy Rice, "Spring City: A Look at a Nineteenth Century Mormon Village," Utah Historical Quarterly 43, no. 3 (Summer 1975) :271. 7. Leon S. Pitman, "A Survey of Nineteenth Century Folk Housing in the Mormon Culture Region" (Ph.D. dissertation, Louisiana State University, 1973), p. 191. 8. Henry Glassie, "Folk Art," in Folklore and Folklife: An Introduction, ed. Richard M. Dorson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973), p. 253, and "Structure and Function: Folklore and the Artifact," Semiotica 7, no. 4 (1973) :339. 9. Kenneth L. Ames, Beyond Necessity: Art in the Folk Tradition (New York: W. W. Norton, 1977), p. 16. 10. Glassie, "Folk Art," pp. 257-58. 11. For a discussion of the American concept of wilderness, see Roderick Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967), pp. 8-43. Specific analogies in Mormon thinking are detailed in George H. Williams, Wilderness and Paradise in Christian Thought (New York: Harper and Bros., 1962), pp. 117-20. 12. The rationale of the village is outlined in Lowry Nelson, The Mormon Village (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1952); Leonard J. Arrington, Feramorz Y. Fox, and Dean May, Building the City of God (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1976); and Charles S. Peterson, "A Mormon Town: One Man's W'est," Journal of Mormon History 3 (1976):3-12. 13. Hugh W. Nibley, "Brigham Young on the Environment," in To the Glory of God, ed. Truman G. Madsen and Charles D. Tate, Jr. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1972), p. 8. 57 |