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Show re-related to specific social situations through performance. Plan of the Study The plan of this study follows the general pattern of artifactual analysis itself. 44 The first three chapters are largely introductory but also are intended to deal directly with the initial stage of material culture study, i.e., the gathering of data. Chapter I outlines the problem to be addressed in the study and summarizes the basic fieldwork methods. Chapters II and III provide an historical overview of both Mormonism and the Sanpete Valley and are intended to set forth the specific context for the objects under investigation. The next three chapters move to a second level of investigation, that of analyzing the collected data in terms of space, time, and form and are largely descriptive. Chapter IV attempts to develop a specific set of geometrical ground rules for designing Sanpete Valley houses, while Chapter V reveals the actual houses generated by this designing system. Chapter VI is concerned with describing the techniques which turned abstract concepts into material fact. The last chapter represents the final step in the analytical process, the explanation of the data. ' What, after all, did these buildings mean for the people who built them and used them? Drawing upon theories of folklore performance and cultural pluralism, Chapter VII attempts to explain this architectural behavior within the larger context of Mormon cultural history. Fieldwork Methods 20 |
