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Shannon A Novak - House of Mourning: A Biocultural History of the Mountain Meadows Massacre - 9781607811695 - V9781607811695
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House of Mourning: A Biocultural History of the Mountain Meadows Massacre

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Description for House of Mourning: A Biocultural History of the Mountain Meadows Massacre Paperback. A sensitive and in-depth look at the victims of the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre were some 120 men, women, and children from the Arkansas hills were murdered by Mormon militiamen whose motives have been fiercely debated for over 150 years. Num Pages: 226 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 15. Weight in Grams: 499.

On September 11, 1857, some 120 men, women, and children from the Arkansas hills were murdered in the remote desert valley of Mountain Meadows, Utah. This notorious massacre was, in fact, a mass execution: having surrendered their weapons, the victims were bludgeoned to death or shot at point-blank range. The perpetrators were local Mormon militiamen whose motives have been fiercely debated for 150 years.

In House of Mourning, Shannon A. Novak goes beyond the question of motive to the question of loss. Who were the victims at Mountain Meadows? How had they settled and raised their families in the American South, ... Read more

The history of the massacre has often been treated as a morality tale whose chief purpose was to vilify (or to glorify) some collective body. Resisting this tendency to oversimplify the past, Novak explores Mountain Meadows as a busy and dangerous intersection of cultural and material forces in antebellum America. House of Mourning is a bold experiment in a new kind of history, the biocultural analysis of complex events.

Winner of the Society for Historical Archaeology James Deetz Book Award. 
 

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Salt Lake City, United States
ISBN
9781607811695
SKU
V9781607811695
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Shannon A Novak
Shanon A. Novak is assistant professor of anthropology in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

Reviews for House of Mourning: A Biocultural History of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
"Shannon Novak shows us the way that bioarchaeology can combine with history to provide a more complete and accurate story of the past—better than either can do by itself. Her research of the history of the Arkansas emigrants and their roots goes well beyond the efforts of most works of this kind"—George W. Gill, professor emeritus of anthropology, University of ... Read more

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