The pure experience of order
Subtitle: essays on the symbolic in the folk material culture of western America
By: Richard C. Poulsen.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Mormons -- Utah -- Social life and customs.; Mormons -- Utah -- Material culture.; Material culture -- Utah.; Folklore -- Utah.; Symbolism in folklore -- Utah.; Utah -- Social life and customs.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 159-166.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The language of symbol; title: History and meaning; title: Making molasses in the desert; title: The handclasp motif in Mormon folk burial; title: Hawks and coyotes on western fences; title: Folk material culture of the Sanpete-Sevier area; title: Cultural invisibility; title: Repetition in folk artifacts; title: Circumference and center; title: Freedom and form.